Senate hints at expediting amnesty grant for mutineers
By Angie M. Rosales and Mario J. Mallari 11/27/2010Depending on the will of the majority of senators, the upper chamber may choose not to conduct a new hearing and instead present for plenary approval the revised presidential proclamation granting amnesty to over 300 rebel soldiers.
“We’ll still subject it to a caucus. It (holding a committee hearing) may no longer be called and have this taken
straight to the plenary,” Sen. Teofisto “TG” Guingona III said, referring to Presidential Proclamation 75, following Palace’s transmission to the chamber the other day.
Guingona, chairman of the committee on peace, unification and reconciliation, said whatever legal infirmities previously raised by critics in the original Proclamation 50 appeared to have been already rectified by Malacañang.
Sen. Joker Arroyo, for one, underscored the need to mention the “admission of guilt” of those seeking amnesty but which remained to be absent in the revised presidential issuance..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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