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Palace on Arroyo travel ban: So sue us
« on: November 06, 2011, 08:56:54 AM »
By Cynthia D. Balana, Norman Bordadora
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Sunday, November 6th, 2011


Sticking to its guns, Malacañang on Saturday challenged critics assailing the travel ban on former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to go to the courts.

Secretary Edwin Lacierda, President Benigno Aquino III’s spokesperson, brushed aside House Minority Leader Edcel Lagman’s legal opinion that the government had no right to prevent Arroyo from going abroad to seek medical treatment, saying it was a single opinion from a lawyer.

“That’s Congressman Lagman’s legal opinion and that can be better ventilated if a case is filed. Right now, there is no case filed so it’s our legal opinion against the legal opinion of some other people. So we have as many legal opinions as there are lawyers in this country,” Lacierda said over government-run radio station dzRB.

Told that Lagman had invoked the Constitution’s Bill of Rights in bolstering the position of the Arroyo camp, Lacierda replied that the government had its own basis for rejecting the former president’s bid to travel abroad.

“Again, that’s a legal opinion that was posed by Congressman Lagman,” Lacierda said.

He then suggested that the lawmaker was a lackey of Arroyo’s. “Obviously (Justice) Secretary Leila de Lima has a position, bearing with her a memorandum circular issued by Congressman Lagman’s patron,” Lacierda said.

Lacierda was referring to a Department of Justice circular, issued during Arroyo’s administration, listing the requirements for issuing a hold departure order against people facing criminal complaints.

De Lima last week put off for next week her decision on whether to allow Arroyo to travel abroad after she was told by Health Secretary Enrique Ona that there was no urgency in deciding on the matter.



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Re: Palace on Arroyo travel ban: So sue us
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2011, 09:00:10 AM »
Let GMA go--Prelates
Published : Sunday, November 06, 2011 00:00
Written by : Lee Ann Ducusin


TWO Catholic bishops who were former critics of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo want her to be permitted to seek medical treatment abroad.

Caloocan Bishop Deogracias Iñiguez and retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz said Arroyo should be allowed to go but there should be a guarantee that she would return to the Philippines.

“Arroyo should be allowed if the treatment is available only abroad and there’s guarantee of her return,” said Iñiguez who heads the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines - Committee on Public Affairs.

For his part, Cruz said that at the moment, the former president still “retains the right to travel.”

“If she does not come back, then her flight is a sign of guilt,” he said.

The prelates made the statement Friday after the Department of Justice rejected Arroyo’s appeal to seek medical consultations with specialists abroad for her bone disease.

The DOJ subpoenaed Arroyo last month to attend an investigation on allegations of 2004 and 2007 election fraud.

It also served subpoenas to former First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo and 40 others in connection with the case.

But Archbishop Cruz said the Justice department should be prudent in its decision against Arroyo.

“…Because if her sickness becomes fatal, then De Lima gets all the blame and Arroyo becomes some kind of a martyr,” he said. -- http://www.journal.com.ph/



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