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                    [ArticleID] => 102679
                    [Title] => Ramos rides again - WHY AND WHY NOT by Nelson A. Navarro
                    [Summary] => Fidel Ramos, you could always tell, never wanted to leave Malacañang. From Day One of his presidency in June 1992, it was evident that he thought of the  Cory Constitution’s provision for a one-term presidency as the one definitive impediment to Philippine progress. But like his predecessor Cory Aquino, he had no choice but to play along with the fiction of no-reelection, all the while trying to lay the premise for its scrapping by a friendly constitutional convention sometime down the line.

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The opposition Lakas-NUCD Party, not too long ago the pariah of pariahs, is on a high roll these days.

Proof of the pudding was that last week, former President Fidel Ramos, Mr. Lakas himself, came home from one of his foreign speaking engagements much like a conquering hero. A belated birthday party awaited him at his Makati headquarters and there was heady talk of a return to power much sooner than later. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1539298 [AuthorName] => Nelson A. navarro [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103300 [Title] => Erap and Gloria - Why And Why Not [Summary] =>

They're the oddest couple of Philippine politics. Coming from two different worlds and so obviously dancing to different music, they ought to have slugged it out and gone separate ways a long time ago. But they're still together after 21 long months of official bliss, still with no sign of impending break in the horizon.

Of course, the BW insider-trading scandal and the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office mess have generated some wrinkles (and a few testy barbs) between President Estrada and Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. [DatePublished] => 2000-03-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1539298 [AuthorName] => Nelson A. navarro [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103264 [Title] => The sorest thumb of all - Why and Why not [Summary] =>

Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo sticks out like the sorest of sore thumbs in the nation as the Estrada presidency sinks ever deeper into the mire. Gone are the days when she could play footsie with President Estrada, keep her Lakas-NUCD handlers at bay and glibly mumble that mantra about 2004 being too far into the future to worry about. She could have her political cake and eat it, too, avoiding every tricky shoal or unpleasant experience on her pre-ordained royal march to Malacanang. [DatePublished] => 2000-03-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1539298 [AuthorName] => Nelson A. navarro [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103059 [Title] => Erap's pawn or Dadong's daughter? - Why And Why Not [Summary] =>

Perhaps President Estrada just got carried away last Saturday when he said he was thinking of "anointing" Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as his successor in 2004. Or this could have been nothing less than a calculated indiscretion to stir up trouble between the playing-safe Vice President and her antsy partymates in the Lakas-NUCD coalition; perhaps also among Estrada's restive allies in the LAMP organization he is said to disdain.

His exact motives apart, the President appears to be resorting to the old reliable method of poking at some other hornet's nest in order to shift merciless [DatePublished] => 2000-02-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1539298 [AuthorName] => Nelson A. navarro [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )

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                    [Title] => Ramos rides again - WHY AND WHY NOT by Nelson A. Navarro
                    [Summary] => Fidel Ramos, you could always tell, never wanted to leave Malacañang. From Day One of his presidency in June 1992, it was evident that he thought of the  Cory Constitution’s provision for a one-term presidency as the one definitive impediment to Philippine progress. But like his predecessor Cory Aquino, he had no choice but to play along with the fiction of no-reelection, all the while trying to lay the premise for its scrapping by a friendly constitutional convention sometime down the line.

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The opposition Lakas-NUCD Party, not too long ago the pariah of pariahs, is on a high roll these days.

Proof of the pudding was that last week, former President Fidel Ramos, Mr. Lakas himself, came home from one of his foreign speaking engagements much like a conquering hero. A belated birthday party awaited him at his Makati headquarters and there was heady talk of a return to power much sooner than later. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1539298 [AuthorName] => Nelson A. navarro [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103300 [Title] => Erap and Gloria - Why And Why Not [Summary] =>

They're the oddest couple of Philippine politics. Coming from two different worlds and so obviously dancing to different music, they ought to have slugged it out and gone separate ways a long time ago. But they're still together after 21 long months of official bliss, still with no sign of impending break in the horizon.

Of course, the BW insider-trading scandal and the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office mess have generated some wrinkles (and a few testy barbs) between President Estrada and Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. [DatePublished] => 2000-03-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1539298 [AuthorName] => Nelson A. navarro [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103264 [Title] => The sorest thumb of all - Why and Why not [Summary] =>

Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo sticks out like the sorest of sore thumbs in the nation as the Estrada presidency sinks ever deeper into the mire. Gone are the days when she could play footsie with President Estrada, keep her Lakas-NUCD handlers at bay and glibly mumble that mantra about 2004 being too far into the future to worry about. She could have her political cake and eat it, too, avoiding every tricky shoal or unpleasant experience on her pre-ordained royal march to Malacanang. [DatePublished] => 2000-03-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1539298 [AuthorName] => Nelson A. navarro [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103059 [Title] => Erap's pawn or Dadong's daughter? - Why And Why Not [Summary] =>

Perhaps President Estrada just got carried away last Saturday when he said he was thinking of "anointing" Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as his successor in 2004. Or this could have been nothing less than a calculated indiscretion to stir up trouble between the playing-safe Vice President and her antsy partymates in the Lakas-NUCD coalition; perhaps also among Estrada's restive allies in the LAMP organization he is said to disdain.

His exact motives apart, the President appears to be resorting to the old reliable method of poking at some other hornet's nest in order to shift merciless [DatePublished] => 2000-02-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1539298 [AuthorName] => Nelson A. navarro [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )

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