Ex-VP asks Arroyo ‘vital questions’
Former vice president Teofisto Guingona Jr. on Thursday morning issued an open letter to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo asking "vital questions" about her term of office three days before she delivers her State of the Nation Address.
Guingona, at a press conference at Club Filipino in San Juan City, questioned Arroyo about how she plans to cover a deficit of P154 billion for the first six months of the year.
Will you borrow or impose new taxes?" he wrote in the five-page letter titled, "I ask—The People Have a Right to Know."
Guingona also asked Arroyo about her previous Sona promises including her pledge to provide one million jobs each year. "And yet, our unemployed soared to 2.9 million in April 2008, and the underemployed to 6.6 million. Where are the jobs promised?" he said.
During the open forum that followed, Guingona said he received an invitation to attend a Sona rally and that he would likely attend.
He also said three conditions for a declaration martial law are not present: credibility of current administration, support of military, and support from the international community.
Defy unlawful orders
By Philip C. Tubeza
Warning about a “disturbing pattern” showing that the Arroyo administration will try to perpetuate itself in power, former Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz Jr. Wednesday urged soldiers to defy “patently unlawful orders” for partisan political ends and for subverting the Constitution.
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