Alleba Politics

The Philippine Daily Inquirer asks, “Hostage to Politics?“:

Today, the question has only deepened; we wonder whether the “costs” of the favorable impeachment vote in last Tuesday’s plenary session may have been too prohibitive. In other words: Has the President been fatally compromised? Is she now a hostage to all the politicians she is presumed to have cut a deal with or promised a favor to, in order to survive?

The Philippine Star talks about the “Merit System“:

It has been decades since promotions in the Philippine military were based on merit rather than connections. Ferdinand Marcos needed the military to enforce his dictatorship, and used promotions and appointments as rewards for loyalty. Demoralization over those rewards led to the creation of a reformist movement in the AFP that in 1986 triggered the people power revolt. The dictatorship ended, but the AFP remained politicized for a long time, with power-hungry cliques attempting coup after coup to install their political patrons at Malacañang.

Malaya writes about “A Slap on the AFP Face“:

It was a slap on the face of the whole AFP leadership. The Board of Generals is made up of the chief of staff, the vice chief, the deputy chief and the chiefs of the three major services. The collective decision of all these six people who run the AFP is to be blithely ignored in the name of “commander-in-chief’s prerogative?”

The Manila Times explains “The peace process as a chess game“:

Just days after reopening informal talks with the government panel in Norway, the NDF abruptly changed its mind, dashing hopes that the long-frozen formal negotiations could finally be thawed out by next month. The NDF explained that the government side had failed to act on the communists’ demand to have itself, the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army removed from the list of terrorist organizations drawn up by the United States and several other governments.

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