Word: lacson
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...between the Philippines' House and Senate. But Arroyo's critics see the move as a naked power grab, noting that by invalidating current term limits, it could conceivably enable Arroyo to stay in power as Prime Minister after her term as President ends in 2010. One opposition senator, Panfilo Lacson, called last week's political maneuvering "nothing short of constitutional rape." The amendment also antagonized powerful business leaders and the country's formidable Catholic Bishops Conference, whose president, Angel Lagdameo, called the House's gambit "illegal and immoral...
...only problem. She faces a bloody insurgency in the south, a deteriorating currency and a looming presidential election campaign next spring. (She hasn't announced if she's running or not.) And then there's "Mike," First Gentleman Jos? Miguel Arroyo. He's been accused by Senator Panfilo Lacson?who has declared his intention to run for President?of siphoning off $5.6 million of Arroyo's campaign donations and having an affair with his female accountant to boot. Mike admitted last week that his daughter Luli was avoiding him because of the scandal and that the President, when she sees...
...last week. The main witness against him in Senate hearings had been his godson and former messenger, Eugenio Mahusay, who testified that he was frequently sent to the bank to deposit and withdraw large sums from an account the First Gentleman controlled under an alias. But it turned out Lacson may have been duped by his star witness. Mahusay, who under Lacson's care had retreated to a hotel outside Manila (the Senator, a former national police chief, said he had Mahusay in "protective custody"), soon changed his tune. At his next court appearance, he said he had lied...