SUBSCRIBEWhat’s next?
The president has already broken her silence and made her admission last night that the female voice on the so called Gloriagate tapes wherein she was discussing last year’s presidential election results with a senior election commission official was hers. That admission was long delayed: 22 days since it was first broadcast by a local radio station followed by a deafening silence on the president’s part and within the span of those days, calls for her resignation and snap elections were being thrown and shouted as transcripts, CD copies (both original and manipulated) as well as mobile phone ringtones of the “Hello Garci” (as popularly known) wiretapped conversation flourished in the streets, markets, media and the Internet. Protest marches staged by unlikely bedfellows: Friday by the ever persistent militant Left and the opposition composed of losing presidential candidates, FPJ loyalists (even if their idol is dead, still living in the past) and shady opposition figures whose credibilities are also questionable to the supposed Saturday march by the group of retired general Fortunato Abat whose plans are always hastily planned but also hastily cancelled and an impeachment complaint filed by an opposition group’s lawyer (his second time against the same person – he really hates Gloria Arroyo very much).
Now what. Reactions from different quarters range from the predictable scoffs of the opposition and the militants branding it as half truths and still lies (I wonder, if their scripts will ever change) and continuing their call for resignation and snap polls, to the administration allies’ and friends’ praise of statesmanship, to the ordinary man’s indifference.
What’s next? Lets just wait and see. As a defunct sitcom said: Abangan ang susunod na kabanata (Wait for the next chapter). The next few days would be interesting.
