Miriam on impeachment
| C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S |
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| Jonathan De la Cruz |
It is good that Liberal Party (LP) Sen. Teofisto Guingona III who heads the blue ribbon committee, has clarified reports that he gave a copy of the committee’s “partial report” enjoining the House of Representatives to impeach Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez and asking Malacañang to dismiss the prosecutors who handled the Garcia plea bargain agreement to P-Noy. “People make mistakes,” Guingona was supposed to have told reporters, after advising that indeed he thought his staff had sent an e-mail of the partial committee report to P-Noy but after checking it was not sent at all.
Although not everybody was taken in by his hasty retreat, at least his mea culpa somehow eased the apprehensions of his colleagues and, of course, the public in general, that the Gutierrez impeachment is getting to be a highly partisan political exercise devoid of a modicum of due process and fairness.
Coming as it did after that highly publicized meeting which P-Noy had with LP members of the House of Representatives where he virtually ordered his partymates to toe the party line and get Gutierrez through the wringer, Guingona’s precipitate move had it pushed through would have seriously compromised the process itself. It would have opened the floodgates to the derogation of the separation of powers and, of course, the principle of checks and balance as envisioned by the framers of the Constitution..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110318com5.html
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