Ex-President Arroyo wishes to be the last victim of political persecution
Ex-president Arroyo On Political Persecution – Former President Gloria Arroyo, days after being released from a hospital arrest at the Veterans Medical Memorial Center in Quezon City said that political persecution.
In an interview by ABS-CBN at her place in La Vista Subdivision in Quezon City, former President Arroyo recalled what happened to her during her hospital arrest.
“To begin with, the detention itself was unjust,’ she said. So to me, that’s the most important thing. And what I learned from that, this whole thing of political power, to persecute political enemies, that must stop,” Arroyo added.
But, Arroyo pointed out that she doesn’t wish her ‘worst enemies’ to experience what she had experienced. The current congresswoman of the Second District of Pampanga also expressed that the justice system of the government must be fair to all.
Arroyo also hopes to be the last victim of political persecution. She then clarified that the political figures must be not exempted from persecution but must be placed in a fair process.
Cong. Arroyo has been acquitted on plunder charges filed against her regarding the P366-million Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office intelligence funds during her term.
But on July 29, 2016, the Supreme Court junks Sandiganbayan’s ruling over Arroyo’s case. The SC deemed that the evidences against Arroyo are weak.
“The Supreme Court has once again proven itself to be the final bastion of justice and the rule of law,” said Ferdinand Topacio, legal spokesman of former First Gentleman Mike Arroyo in a report by PhilStar.
Topacio said that the ruling over Arroyo’s case proves that the charges filed are “nothing more than disingenuous attempts at political persecution by a corrupt and inept Aquino administration intent on covering up its gross lack of accomplishments by harassing its political opponents.”
