Government lawyers aim for successful prosecution of Mrs Arroyo, Palace says
Malacanang made an assurance Saturday that government lawyers will handle the electoral case against former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo very well to ensure that justice will be done.
“Our OSG [Office of the Solicitor General] will certainly do its best in all the cases that it represents government on,” Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said in a radio interview over government-run dzRB Radyo ng Bayan on Saturday.
“On the part of government, we will certainly be on the ball on making sure that this case -- in doing everything that we can to make sure that there is no delay on the part of the prosecution,” she added.
Valte said the Office of the Solicitor General will do everything for the successful prosecution of Mrs. Arroyo amid fears that government lawyers will be no match against brilliant lawyers such as Estelito Mendoza and Jose Flaminiano, who are the counsels of the Arroyos.
Issues were also raised about the competency of Pasay City Regional Trial Court Judge Jesus Mupas, the judge to try the former leader, as he has been previously sanctioned by the Supreme Court for delaying the cases he was handling.
Valte said they hope Judge Mupas has learned his lessons with regards to the SC sanction believing that he’ll handle the Arroyo case very well.
“We can always hope that he learned his lessons after that particular sanction,” she said adding that she believes the case assignment is fair because it was raffled.
The Aquino government said the arrest of Mrs. Arroyo is a welcome development and considered it as “a triumph of justice” in the country with government continuing its pursuit of the Arroyos for alleged abuses and excesses while they were in power.
A Pasay City court issued an arrest warrant against the former president for an electoral sabotage case effectively barring her from a scheduled departure abroad Friday afternoon.
In a media briefing in Malacanang on Friday, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said President Benigno Aquino III wanted Mrs. Arroyo treated with utmost respect being a former president of the country.
The government, she said, is open for a possible hospital or house arrest for the former president and will not insist on putting her in prison.
The court’s issuance of an arrest warrant Friday effectively made the temporary restraining order (TRO) issued earlier by the Supreme Court moot and academic, averting a possible constitutional crisis. (PCOO)
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Malacanang declares November 22 as a special non-working day in Sultan Kudarat
Malacanang has declared Nov. 22, 2011 as a special non-working day in the province of Sultan Kudarat in celebration of the 38th Founding Anniversary.
By virtue of Proclamation No. 281 signed by Executive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa Jr. on October 27, 2011, the Palace declared Tuesday as a special non-working day to give the people of the province the full opportunity to celebrate and participate in the occasion.
Sultan Kudarat was once a part of the former empire province of Cotabato. It was created as a separate province along with Maguindanao and North Cotabato on November 22, l973 by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 341 signed by former President Ferdinand E. Marcos.
The name Sultan Kudarat given to the province was derived from a Muslim ruler, the late Sultan Mohammed Dipatuan Kudarat who begun to assert his leadership in the year 1619 and reigned in the Sultanate of Maguindanao from January 1625 to 1671.
Sultan Kudarat is located in the southwestern part of the island of Mindanao. It is bounded on the north by its sister provinces of Maguindanao and Cotabato; on the south by the provinces of South Cotabato and Sarangani; on the east by Davao del Sur and on the west by Celebes Sea. (PCOO)
Malacanang made an assurance Saturday that government lawyers will handle the electoral case against former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo very well to ensure that justice will be done.
“Our OSG [Office of the Solicitor General] will certainly do its best in all the cases that it represents government on,” Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said in a radio interview over government-run dzRB Radyo ng Bayan on Saturday.
“On the part of government, we will certainly be on the ball on making sure that this case -- in doing everything that we can to make sure that there is no delay on the part of the prosecution,” she added.
Valte said the Office of the Solicitor General will do everything for the successful prosecution of Mrs. Arroyo amid fears that government lawyers will be no match against brilliant lawyers such as Estelito Mendoza and Jose Flaminiano, who are the counsels of the Arroyos.
Issues were also raised about the competency of Pasay City Regional Trial Court Judge Jesus Mupas, the judge to try the former leader, as he has been previously sanctioned by the Supreme Court for delaying the cases he was handling.
Valte said they hope Judge Mupas has learned his lessons with regards to the SC sanction believing that he’ll handle the Arroyo case very well.
“We can always hope that he learned his lessons after that particular sanction,” she said adding that she believes the case assignment is fair because it was raffled.
The Aquino government said the arrest of Mrs. Arroyo is a welcome development and considered it as “a triumph of justice” in the country with government continuing its pursuit of the Arroyos for alleged abuses and excesses while they were in power.
A Pasay City court issued an arrest warrant against the former president for an electoral sabotage case effectively barring her from a scheduled departure abroad Friday afternoon.
In a media briefing in Malacanang on Friday, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said President Benigno Aquino III wanted Mrs. Arroyo treated with utmost respect being a former president of the country.
The government, she said, is open for a possible hospital or house arrest for the former president and will not insist on putting her in prison.
The court’s issuance of an arrest warrant Friday effectively made the temporary restraining order (TRO) issued earlier by the Supreme Court moot and academic, averting a possible constitutional crisis. (PCOO)
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Malacanang declares November 22 as a special non-working day in Sultan Kudarat
Malacanang has declared Nov. 22, 2011 as a special non-working day in the province of Sultan Kudarat in celebration of the 38th Founding Anniversary.
By virtue of Proclamation No. 281 signed by Executive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa Jr. on October 27, 2011, the Palace declared Tuesday as a special non-working day to give the people of the province the full opportunity to celebrate and participate in the occasion.
Sultan Kudarat was once a part of the former empire province of Cotabato. It was created as a separate province along with Maguindanao and North Cotabato on November 22, l973 by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 341 signed by former President Ferdinand E. Marcos.
The name Sultan Kudarat given to the province was derived from a Muslim ruler, the late Sultan Mohammed Dipatuan Kudarat who begun to assert his leadership in the year 1619 and reigned in the Sultanate of Maguindanao from January 1625 to 1671.
Sultan Kudarat is located in the southwestern part of the island of Mindanao. It is bounded on the north by its sister provinces of Maguindanao and Cotabato; on the south by the provinces of South Cotabato and Sarangani; on the east by Davao del Sur and on the west by Celebes Sea. (PCOO)
