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I
shouldn’t care about this impeachment proceeding... but what the hell!
I saw
a bunch of old people... and Lucy
Torres-Gomez hanging out and logging extra minutes at the plenary hall. The
reason is to push for a senate vote with regards of the sacking of Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez. She is
one of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s
biggest cronies and she is hailed as one of the instigators of Gloria’s alleged
wrath.
She is
being tried because of her alleged betrayal of public trust. House Resolution 1089 contains a bunch of
impeachable articles aimed to maim her to the pulp.
NUMBER 1 / Low
conviction rate of the Ombudsman’s office
NUMBER 2 / The
NBN-ZTE scandal
NUMBER 3 / The
slow investigation of the wrongful death of Ensign Philip Andrew Pestano
NUMBER 4 / The
Fertilizer Fund Scam
NUMBER 5 /
Mega Pacific automated polls machines scandal
NUMBER 6 / The
Euro Generals
So
basically Gutierrez is responsible for a bunch of scandals in her over nine
years in office. I mean the Euro
Generals is pretty much in the news now (the Ligot family are getting no love from the senators). The rest
of those accusations are either unattended or out of the Ombudsman’s coverage
area.
So
basically 95 votes to up this
resolution to the congress and with the way Gutierrez had been doing her job...
Why
should she be shocked with the result?
Initially,
the polls ended with 210 yes votes, 47
no votes, and 4 abstain votes. That number grew to 212 yes votes, and 46 no votes, and 4 abstain votes as of 12:45am. With 95 votes needed to raise
the issue to the Senate that was easily reached before the votes reached the
letter “M”, expect Gutierrez to get more sleepless nights in the process.
However,
she should pray that she’ll get seven votes in her favor. While yeah, there are
24 senators in the Philippines – two of them are incapacitated with Ping Lacson hiding in some country
outside the Philippines and Noynoy
Aquino abducting his seat for presidency.
But
maybe... just maybe... hoping can spring to justice?
Game
over.
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