+ Follow LA PRESIDENTA Tag
LA PRESIDENTA
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[Title] => Has the daredevil RAM-rod and chronic putschist’s luck finally run out?
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Perhaps it can be said that former Senator and ex-Colonel Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan made it his career to plan military putsches. Handsome, articulate, totally charming Honasan looked and acted like a character picked by Hollywood out of central casting.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-16 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133172
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[AuthorID] => 1510184
[AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven
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[ArticleID] => 368858
[Title] => ‘Good morning, Vietnam’ and other GMA travels
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Remember that old Robin Williams’ movie, Good Morning, Vietnam? Today, it’s really "good morning" for Vietnam – with leaders from 21 Asia-Pacific economies congregating in Hanoi this weekend, including our own La Presidenta GMA – and US President George W. Bush.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-15 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven
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[ArticleID] => 368678
[Title] => Susmariosep! Even ‘Rosebud’ is running for mayor of Manila
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As predicted in this column yesterday morning, Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson announced his candidacy for mayor of Manila a few hours later – at our friend Neal Cruz’s Kapihan sa Manila.
Lacson revealed his plan to run earlier than I had expected, and alleged that he had made a decision "after much soul searching – after several restless days and sleepless nights . . ." (He should have taken valium or stilnox).
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-14 00:00:00
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[Title] => Zero hour
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Many people have been speculating over the resignation of Defense Secretary Avelino "Nonong" Cruz, who had been La Presidenta’s lawyer and served in her Cabinet for six years and nine months. He did a fine job as Defense Secretary, but he apparently decided when he outspokenly called the Palace-sponsored "People’s Initiative" a "harebrained idea," it was time to go.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-07 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 367103
[Title] => It’s not seemly for anyone to apply to be ‘Chief Justice’ like an eager job-applicant
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Sorry, Miriam – you may cuss me out if you will – but I don’t believe it’s dignified for anybody, even one who spent years in the judiciary and is now a Senator, to publicly "apply" to become the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-05 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 366074
[Title] => Sore losers
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What blabbermouths we are in this country! La Presidenta GMA accepted "defeat" gracefully by making a sober comment, no resentment in her voice, on the Supreme Court’s 8-7 decision which junked the "People’s Initiative." This was La Gloria without the taray pout so often attributed to her.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-30 00:00:00
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[Title] => JDV’s race against the clock to save Cha-cha
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"If we miss the boat this time, there’ll be no hope for Constitutional change for the next ten years!" This was the anguished argument of Speaker Jose de Venecia at our Manila Overseas Press Club dinner-forum last Friday night.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-29 00:00:00
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[Title] => JDV’s race against the clock to save Cha-cha
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"If we miss the boat this time, there’ll be no hope for Constitutional change for the next ten years!" This was the anguished argument of Speaker Jose de Venecia at our Manila Overseas Press Club dinner-forum last Friday night.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-29 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133172
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[ArticleID] => 363913
[Title] => Why was Arthur Yap ‘intrigued’ out of the Palace?
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You don’t have to be a political swami to realize that Secretary Yap, Director General up to yesterday of the Presidential Management Staff (PMS), was bumped out of the Palace by very influential men. True, he was named to the Cabinet post from where he originally came, that of Secretary of Agriculture.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-20 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133172
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[AuthorID] => 1510184
[AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven
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[ArticleID] => 361443
[Title] => There goes the credibility of our May 2007 elections!
[Summary] => SHANGHAI – Even after two days here in China, I still can’t believe it!
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-05 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133172
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1510184
[AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven
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