Comments on: Pro, Anti, Indifferent

By: candido a.o. aparece

candido a.o. aparece — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:25:30 +0000

To address the political crisis and collapsing democracy, the shift to a federal-parliamentary system is the key to change the unpopular presidency.

It will be necessary for Pres Arroyo to heed the call of the citizens and cooperate with the opposition (for political opposition also to engage seriously the administration) in a broad and meaningful citizens participated charter reform and referendum.

A National Citizen Consultative Assembly (NCCCA) composed of representatives of major sectoral groups directly engaged in the political intramurals now in the streets, schools, chamber of commerces, faith-based formations should hammer a draft amendments to the 1986 constitution and propose a federal-parliamentary system of government with provisions for political party funding and mass membership.

The BICAM or Bicamiral Committee should convene and MalacaÃƒÂ±an to push the proposed amendments of the NCCCA.

Then, a Constituent Assembly will be convened with House of Representatives and Senate voting separately on the NCCCA proposal. This stage will almost be procedural only- after the review of NCCCA’s work is done by the BICAM.

At this point, a referendum will be conducted for the final adoption of a federal-parliamentary system and for the head of state and head of government to assume office after the Parliament is constituted.

By: cvj

cvj — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:30:39 +0000

Raiding a newspaper, restricting media, arresting lawmakers do not make for a healthy democracy…

By: mark v. kintanar

mark v. kintanar — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:20:40 +0000

SHAME! i agree wholeheartedly with alex magno’s column 2day, why do u want the military to take over & thats how desperate u pipol that u r burning our democracy with ur relentless assault to bring down this gov’t. She may not be perfect but pls. lets help her improve the lives of our poor filipinos by pursuing doable economic programs.The strange alliances speak for themselves, u cannot take-over with those kind of people with vested interestS & distorted loyalties.I was at EDSA1 willing to die to dismantle the dictatorship but u cannot force the critical mass coz most of ur leaders are despicable pretenders. LONG LIVE DEMOCRACY !

By: victorcian

victorcian — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:20:48 +0000

i was disgusted to what i have read… to some of the articles written .. it made me sick upon reading to some of it… i think the best way to solve our economic and political cisis are to .. unite every Filipino.. Gloria is not the reason why we are suffering from this crisis.. We also blamed ourselves not only to Gloria.. but of course she has done wrong also.. why i think declaring state of emergency is not an appropriate time… She should give priority to the filipino especially to those who are underemployed and unemployed.

By: epsotto

epsotto — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:34:21 +0000

“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” Winston Churchill

By: a de brux

a de brux — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:30:57 +0000

MLQ3,

Re Pulsar’s question

I can nominate one right now but would rather leave the nominating to the public for now.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:57:46 +0000

Maria Jose,
Did you write that piece in Alleba Politics, “I Pick Democracy”. It is a great essay!

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:57:17 +0000

[...] Manuel Quezon does a listing of posts and opinions so far. [...]

By: mlq3

mlq3 — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 03:21:45 +0000

pulsar, i agree: from day one, the public has been asking, “who will be our champion against her?”