Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Aklan Lakas Supports GMA Not To Resign

Aklan Lakas CMD through former SP member RODSON F. MAYOR, Secretary General expressed full support to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to follow the legal and constitutional process and not to resign.
Mayor said, that GMA was elected by the sovereign people to serve and has the duty to carry on the mandate reposed upon her by the sovereign people to defend and uphold the constitution and not to be cowed by the marchers on the street who do not even reflect a percent of the 84 million population.
Aklanons hail the decision of President Arroyo in defending and upholding the legal process and constitution by her firm stand not to resign as a display of strong leadership and political will.
Meanwhile, Mayor, expressed dismay at the action of former President Cory Aquino in asking GMA to resign and add fuel to the present street turmoil, instead of helping calm down the protesters and encouraging them to follow the legal process and the rule of law.
According to Mayor, the former President does not have the legal and moral right to ask for the resignation of President Arroyo who was elected by the people.
Mayor stressed that former President Aquino who did not carry the mandate of the people as she was not elected President but installed by people power in 1986 did not bother to resign, despite the clamor for her resignation and the 7 coup attempts where several people died.
In former President Aquino’s time, she was abandoned by her Vice President, the late Salvador Laurel and Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, one of the principal actors that installed former President Aquino to the presidency. If the former President did not resign during her time when she was not elected by the people, but installed by people power, and was also abandoned by her close allies, then she has no legal and moral right to ask President Arroyo to resign.
On the other hand, Tibyog It Akean has approved a proposal to call for the immediate resignation of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from the Presidency. This was announced by former Congressman Allen S. Quimpo last week during a radio interview with Kaibahang Butz Maquinto in his program “Elitsahan”. According to Atty. Quimpo, the call for Arroyo resignation was approved during the Tibyog meeting held in Buruanga, Aklan last week.
However, Governor Carlito S. Marquez in his speech on July 11 during the induction of officers of the Boys Scouts of the Philippines, Aklan Council, he was one of the signatories of the resolution of the League of Provincial Governors strongly supporting the Presidency of President Arroyo and urging her not to resign her position. “I am a member of Lakas CMD,” Gov. Marquez declared. /MP http://madyaas_pen@yahoo.com

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