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After acceding to Noynoy’s demand to resign, Ombudsman Merceditas (Merci) Gutierrez’s move is now being ascribed by the same people seeking her resignation to a strategy to save Gloria Arroyo from court cases. And there was yet another reason: Merci no longer would face the impeachment court she protected Gloria by resigning, as Noynoy’s allies said the Senate court proceedings would have inevitably led to the sins of Gloria.
Such an insane argument was being spearheaded by former state prosecutor Dennis Villa-Ignacio, saying the resignation of Gutierrez deprived the nation of a venue to get a glimpse of the pieces of evidence against the Ombudsman under trial that would have linked Arroyo.
With her resignation, the doors are expected to open for cases against Gloria, so says her demonizer, Noynoy. How then does her resignation save Gloria?
The mindset of Villa-Ignacio exposes the whole strategy for the impeachment trial of the prosecutors who are made up of Noynoy’s allies. And that is to use the Senate court as a venue to start a political assault on Gloria.
It also exposed the ploy that the impeachment proceedings would have been used likely for political grandstanding with proving the basis of articles of impeachment against Gutierrez only secondary.
Before Gutierrez was impeached, almost the same individuals made a lot of noise about the incapability of the Ombudsman to issue a decision against her perceived political patron, Gloria, and thus the need for her resignation.
Now that she has resigned, these pretentious lot behind Noynoy is now alleging a sinister motive behind it.
Noynoy got what he wanted and the appointment of a new Ombudsman would be his most anticipated next move.
Villa-Ignacio must be making a lot of noise now with a moist eye on the recently vacated post.
Nonetheless, the nation expects Noynoy to step up on his anti-corruption effort, now that Merci had given way to him. He and his cohorts had indicated that the campaign to end corruption under Noynoy’s administration and the impeachment of Merci go together like peas in a pod and Noynoy has always said that Merci is the biggest stumbling block in his anti-corruption fight.
Merci’s resignation, thus, takes away a major alibi for his administration’s lackluster record, thus far, in the effort to end corruption.
Of course, Noynoy would continue to pound away at his other scapegoat, the majority of the Supreme Court justices, whom his aides have branded as the Arroyo court, if his anti-corruption efforts continue to stall.
The Truth Commission which Noynoy had formed supposedly to probe allegations of corrupt practices against Gloria remains in limbo as the Supreme Court had declared the executive order that formed the body as unconstitutional.
Noynoy had openly criticized the high court for throwing out a series of edicts he issued although legal experts blame the sloppy crafting of these executive orders for their failure to hurdle the tribunal.
Nevertheless, the Palace is making it look like a hidden agenda among the SC justices that was behind the junking of Noynoy’s orders.
The biggest drawback against Noynoy always blaming somebody else whenever he cannot get anything moving, is the growing perception that he lacks the commanding presence as a leader nor does he have the will to have people in government to do the things that he claims to want done.
With Merci out of the way and the anti-graft body no longer an obstacle to him, Noynoy would be expected by many to start filing the supposedly many charges that his wards had withheld from Merci in the belief that this would not be handled properly.
Let’s see Noynoy and his wards put the money where their restless mouths are.
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