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No matter what the critics will say, leaders of the "12:30"" movement, insisted they will be helping Mrs. Arroyo and her administration to attain the much-needed reforms.


"Hindi kami sipsip  (We’re not trying to curry the favor of anyone)," said Lola Poning Tolentino of the Urban Land Reform Task Force, one of some 380 civil society organizations of the movement.


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However, she sidestepped the issue on whether to offer the post to opposition Sen. Blas Ople. 


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A Malacañang search committee, which starts reviewing today qualified nominees for the vacant post of foreign affairs secretary, stressed that no one can be too old to serve in key government posts.
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University of the Philippines professor Chito Gascon of the civil society alliance Kongreso ng Mama-mayang Pilipino (Kompil) said they may "sometimes" disagree with Mrs. Arroyo, "but this is not the time to abandon the President."


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No matter what the critics will say, leaders of the "12:30"" movement, insisted they will be helping Mrs. Arroyo and her administration to attain the much-needed reforms.


"Hindi kami sipsip  (We’re not trying to curry the favor of anyone)," said Lola Poning Tolentino of the Urban Land Reform Task Force, one of some 380 civil society organizations of the movement.


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The sum of GMA's fears is EDSA

By AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR | By William M. Esposo | March 2, 2010 - 12:00am

Madame Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) is both the beneficiary and repressor of People Power which is popularly called EDSA – the name of the avenue where the 1986 People Power Revolution happened.

Opinion

Fateful

By FIRST PERSON | By Alex Magno | September 1, 2009 - 12:00am

This is the month when fateful decisions will have to be made.

Opinion

My Cory

By FIRST PERSON | By Alex Magno | August 4, 2009 - 12:00am

For a quarter of a century, she commanded our nation’s attention: demonstrating the power of sincerity, the force of simplicity.

Opinion

New group vows support for Arroyo

By Romel Bagares | January 12, 2003 - 12:00am

Leaders of the newly launched December 30 Movement said yesterday they are pushing for the Arroyo administration’s eight-point agenda for reforms. No matter what the critics will say, leaders of the "12:30""...

Headlines

Ronnie Puno is ISAFP consultant

July 25, 2002 - 12:00am

Despite opposition from her allies in civil society, President Arroyo has accepted the "voluntary" services of Ronaldo Puno, a former supporter of ousted President Joseph Estrada, to help in the government’s...

Headlines

Ople bids Senate adieu

By Aurea Calica | July 20, 2002 - 12:00am

In what appeared to be a prelude to his assumption of the post of foreign affairs secretary, opposition Sen. Blas Ople sounded yesterday as if he were bidding the Senate press corps goodbye, saying he "would...

Headlines

Civil society under siege/The Filipino & football

By HERE'S THE SCORE | By Teodoro C. Benigno | July 17, 2002 - 12:00am

This is alarming. Civil society is now under tremendous pressure to shut up, curl into a corner like a pooch, and throw its support behind the government of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Leading the anti-libertarian...

Opinion

GMA formally takes over DFA, names 2 officials to new posts

By Marichu Villanueva and Pia Lee-Brago | July 17, 2002 - 12:00am

President Arroyo formally assumed her unprecedented concurrent post as acting secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) after Vice President Teofisto Guingona Jr.’s resignation became effective yesterday. However,...

Headlines

Age doesn’t matter for DFA wannabes

By Marichu A. Villanueva | July 16, 2002 - 12:00am

In affairs of the heart and, sometimes, in the search for a new Cabinet member, age doesn’t matter. A Malacañang search committee, which starts reviewing today qualified nominees for the vacant post...

News Commentary

‘Not the time to abandon GMA’

July 16, 2002 - 12:00am

Following a Church warning to former allies of President Arroyo against staging an "artificially created people power" to oust her, she garnered yesterday strong but qualified support from an alliance of...

Headlines

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