Convict Election Saboteur, Pasay RTC told

Partylist ask voters to reject “fake Bicolano”, “fake sekyu”

Hundreds of members of activist partylist Sanlakas trooped to Pasay City Regional Trial Court today to call for the conviction of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in an electoral sabotage case filed by COMELEC against her two years ago.

“The best way to clean elections is to convict and punish election saboteurs. Failing to do so would encourage unscrupulous politicians to keep on cheating,” said Sanlakas National Spokesperson James Miraflor.

Sanlakas called on the prosecution to take its case against Arroyo seriously to send a strong message against “electoral corruption”.

“We support the COMELEC in its fight for electoral justice. It is not enough that we keep the institution of elections clean. We have to create a public lesson out of those besmirched it in the past. Ano sila, sinuswerte? (Should they be so lucky?),” Miraflor said.

Fake

Sanlakas also called on voters to reject members of the Arroyo family running for several positions in Congress.

“It seems to us that the Arroyo family is establishing a legacy of ‘fakes’. After a fake President, it has produced a fake security guard and a fake Bicolano,” Miraflor said, referring to the Ang Galing Pinoy partylist Rep. Mickey Arroyo and Camarines Sur Rep. Diosdado ‘Dado’ Arroyo.

Mickey Arroy’s Ang Galing Pinoy partylist, which claims to represent security guards, tricycle drivers, farmers and small businessmen, has recently been disqualified by COMELEC because its nominees did not come from marginalized sectors.

“COMELEC just acted on what is already obvious. How can someone who never wore a security guard’s uniform represent them? We haven’t seen any tricycle drivers owning millions of dollars worth of properties in the US,” said Miraflor.

Sanlakas also insisted that Dato Arroyo did not hail from Bicol, as Dato only transferred from Ateneo de Manila University to Ateneo de Naga during college days.

“Dato Arroyo is actually born in Manila. His mother is from Pampanga while his Father is from Iloilo. How more non-Bicolano can you get? It just goes to show the lengths the Arroyo family will go to entrench themselves. That Dato did it when her mother is in power, when they should be making an example of exercising restraint, is really something else,” Miraflor said.

Pampanga deserves better

Sanlakas said that the people of Pampanga deserve better than an “absentee legislator” and a “cunning politician biding her time and using the Kapampangans as cover.”

“GMA’s entire career has been an exercise in the art of political manipulation. From when she maneuvered herself to hijack People Power II, hers is a long list of sophisticated crimes against democracy and decency. The people of Pampanga should not let themselves be used,” Miraflor said.

The militant partylist opposed Arroyo even during the EDSA II People Power revolution, opting to stick with the “Resign All” call even as other left-wing partylists supported the then Vice President when former President Joseph Estrada was ousted.

“All doors that GMA will open, Sanlakas will close,” Miraflor concluded.

January 31, 2013

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