The ChaCha Express Has Arrived
I was immediately greeted with this news when I got home from work last night (Tuesday). I had been dismissing the idea of charter change in the past because I never thought that the legislators would be able to push through with it. But there’s just something really fishy with how everything was rushed and with how they were able to pass a resolution in a short period of time. With the voting process itself (people in favor had to shout “aye”, people who weren’t in favor had to shout “nay”, and whichever registers the louder among the two wins.. kumusta namaaan). And most importantly, with how determined the House appears to be even if the Senate will most likely not let this to happen. Can the House do something the Senate can’t? Are they already one step ahead?
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The ChaCha Express Has Arrived
by Ricky Carandang
Just days after Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said that the formation of the Partido Lakas Kampi (PaLaKa) was proof that there would be an election in 2010, PaLaka lawmakers at the Lower House have taken House Resolution 1109 to the plenary. As I write this the House is debating the resolution convening itself into a constutuent assembly. PaLaKa has the numbers and before the night is over, majority lawmakers expect to have approved 1109 and convened themselves into a constituent assembly.
Expected to follow shortly, maybe even tonight or tomorrow, are the specific amendments to the charter, including something that will eventually pave the way for Arroyo’s continuation in power in one form or another.
And so despite all the denials, the House has finally done it.
What happens next?
This nation has been a formal state six times in its history. First as a colony of Spain, second as the short lived Malolos republic, third as the Commonwealth under the United States, fourth as a Japanese colony during World War II, fifth as the postwar republic that lasted until 1972, sixth was the Marcos Bagong Lipunan, and seventh was the new 1986 regime.
Today could very well go down in history as the day that the Eighth Regime was born.
God help us all.
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Source: Carandang, Ricky. The ChaCha Express has arrived. Available from http://www.rickycarandang.com/?p=241. Internet; accessed 03 June 2009.
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