Press Release
May 13, 2009
Davao City- Faced with the worsening global financial crisis, Bayan said here to today that the members of the Lower House should instead make resolutions to resolve the crisis rather than insist on changing the constitution.
Bayan also urged the public to assert their right to suffrage by having themselves registered with the Commission on Elections and to ensure that their votes are casted and counted during the 2010 elections.
“Be it through House Speaker Nograles’ HR No. 737 or Congressman Villafuerte’s HR No. 1109, the debate on changing the constitution is not about choosing the mode in doing so but the intentions of those who want to railroad charter change before the 2010 elections,” Bayan-SMR spokesperson John Birondo said.
“Straight from the horse’s mouth, the proponents of charter change have said the possibility of retaining Gloria Arroyo’s top post in a parliamentary form of government if in case she wins as prime minister,” Birondo added.
“Come the time that the constitution is changed giving way to a parliamentary form of government, who do we expect to dominate as members of the parliament? Who alone shall have the right to elect the prime minster?” Birondo raised.
“There is no genuine change in everything that Gloria Arroyo and her allies are adamantly pushing now. We will have the same corrupt and immoral government leaders with these kinds of people dominating the parliament,” Birondo stressed.
Birondo added that the initiative to change the constitution is no more than an attempt to prolong Gloria Arroyo’s stint in Malacañang, to ensure her the immunity from lawsuits and to intensify foreign dictates to our economic policies.
“Criminal charges await Gloria Arroyo by the end of her term for all her involvements to corruption and extrajudicial killings. Without the power and influence, Gloria Arroyo could now imagine herself spending the rest of her life behind bars,” Birondo said.
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