Why Gloria will run in 2010

I enjoyed the recent blogger session with Congressman TG Guingona (will post about that within the day). One of the topics that cropped up was how the current administration has literally bastardized our institutions and the budget system. Apparently if congress passes the budget and it’s approved, it’s considered law. PGMA has went overboard with the budget and therefore has broken the law. However she can’t be criminally prosecuted because she’s enjoying immunity being a national official. That’s the reason why she will run in 2010 – either for Vice President or Congress. The moment she steps down and becomes a normal citizen, charges left and right will be piled up against her and she’s spend the rest of her remaining years in this planet fending off corruption allegations in court.

How Impeachment and the Ombudsman Failed Us
Since national officials enjoy immunity, the only thing that we have that will allow us to “punish” an erring official is through either the Ombudsman or through Impeachment. However, both have failed miserably. PGMA has held congress hostage by refusing to give Pork Barrel funds to opposition congressmen and senators. The Ombudsman, on the other hand, hasn’t really done anything that will signal her independence from the Arroyo administration.

VP, Senate, or Congress?
This leaves PGMA with the option of just running for national office. She can run for VP, Senate, or Congress. I don’t think she’ll dare set foot in the Senate since she’s made so many enemies there. That and I personally don’t think she’ll be able to get enough votes to get into the top 12 since it is a national consensus. She has a chance of making it in Congress though since she’s done nothing lately but visit her home province again and again for the past year.

If PGMA wins a seat in Congress, she will be immune again from prosecution. That’s why I support Prof. Randy David’s previous announcement that he will run against Arroyo should she pursue her bid in Congress.

I’m currently working on a series of blog posts which aims to gather all the data and facts that will support my personal stand on why I won’t vote for anyone aligned to President Arroyo. Until they answer those questions that I have, they will be fundamentally bankrupt of morals, therefore making it hard to trust them with anything.

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