NO-EL for 2007

[websniper]

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No election for year 2007, is it an advantage or disadvantage for the Filipinos?


Comments?

[fingolfin]

...and how should they resolve our country's leadership?? thru a wrestling match?? Seriously, how?? Who will decide? Congress? the Senate??

[lestat1116]

hahai.. no-el... so katong badlong.on na nagsit og postion magdugay na pud,.., hahai..

[samsungster]

we need new leaders with bright idea.. there must be an election in 2007!!!

[FK]

And look at how the supposed to be representatives of the cities... Ang mga Mayor ni support dayon sa idea nga No-Election sa 2007.

This is the danger of talking about changing the constitution at the same time having a embattled president.

[ant0n!]

na unsa naman gud ning pilipinas.

[tit@Nium23]

Palace rejects Ramos proposal for Arroyo to quit by 2007

First posted 03:16pm (Mla time) Jan 10, 2006
By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez
INQ7.net



(UPDATE)--PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo thumbed down a proposal by former president Fidel Ramos for her to step down next year amid a protracted political crisis, and vowed to serve out her term unless a new Constitution would require her to resign.
Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye said Tuesday Arroyo “was elected to serve the country until 2010 and no one can take the mandate from her except the sovereign people through constitutionally-sanctioned means."

Ramos, who has remained by Arroyo's side through the months-long crisis, gave the President until June 30, 2007 to step down and decide whether she would run for parliament under an amended Charter that would scrap the two-chamber Congress and presidential system in favor of a unitary parliament.

Ramos said his support for Arroyo was waning, but he was giving her a chance to take steps to put the country in order.

Bunye thanked Ramos for backing her “in the full range of nation building efforts,” but maintained

that Arroyo would not cut her six-year term unless Congress shortened the constitutional limit, and the change would be ratified in a plebiscite.

"If Congress says that there should be a change in term or a cut in term and that's ratified by the people, I think that will be followed by the president," Bunye told GMA Network's radio station dzBB.

Saying that now was not the time to rock the boat, Bunye said the President was presiding over an improving economy, a strong plan for social equity, and a clear roadmap for political change.

He said the political steps to determine what the people wanted as far as political reforms were concerned were already in place -- the Council of State meeting on January 24, the people's initiative that intends to gather signatures supporting Charter change, and measures pending in Congress to amend the Constitution.

"We simply have to follow the process and the train of these events to know and act upon the genuine sentiments and expectations of the people," Bunye said.

Arroyo has endorsed Charter change, mainly to bolster the ailing economy and introduce political reforms by first shifting into a parliamentary form of governance.

But a proposal by the Palace-formed Consultative Commission to scrap the 2007 general elections had dismayed Ramos, branding the recommendation a “major blunder.”

He once gave the President until January 1 to declare her position on the no-election proposal.

While her allies in Congress -- the majority -- back constitutional changes, opposition lawmakers have vowed to try to block them, saying Arroyo was looking for a graceful exit from the crisis and wants to divert attention from allegations of election fraud.

Arroyo won the 2004 election by a slim margin, and then was accused last year of corruption and rigging the polls. The allegation set off her worst crisis and prompted 10 Cabinet members to resign and her key allies to back away.

Ramos stood by her side at the most crucial moment -- support that some say prevented her downfall. But he has grown increasingly frustrated after his proposed reforms failed to rapidly materialize.

Arroyo survived an impeachment bid in September after her majority allies in the House of Representatives blocked it on a technicality. But coup rumors continue to swirl and opposition lawmakers have vowed to continue to investigate allegations against her. With The Associated Press

[potterboy]

samoka sad anang ramos oi. cge man pa-epek. ganahan cguro ning mobalik sa puwesto ai.

[tolstoi]

gi ango2x na gyud ni c Ramos..gusto pa gyud cya mag presidente nga humana man iya termino...basin mapariha ni cya ni ABAT nga gipa priso

[pandisal]

no, it was just a sugestion para kung mo lampos ang CHA-CHA... they will elect a new Prime Minister... so, ma default na ang presidential position... IMO.. pero wala ko ka basa nuon sa tibuok context sa iya request ni GMA...