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Thursday, February 26, 2004

Two-Faced Angara



From Belinda Olivares-Cunanan's column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer:



Representative Gonzalez recalled that at that time Angara was unhappy with House Minority Floor Leader Carlos Padilla and wanted him replaced with Aquino (interestingly, both men eventually were to turn against Angara and support Panfilo Lacson of the rival LDP faction). But more significantly, said Gonzalez, Angara was then batting for Charter change, and he stressed that if this was not put in place, actor Fernando Poe Jr., who was then already being talked about as the possible candidate of former President Estrada, might come in.





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Gonzalez recalled that Angara clearly raised the prospect of FPJ's candidacy as a way to threaten or frighten the Filipino politicians in Bangkok into supporting a Constitutional Assembly, or Consa. If we don't push Consa then we'll have FPJ, which will be a disaster, was Angara's logic. At that time he was batting hard for Eduardo Cojuangco, but within the year, after Cojuangco said with finality he was not running for president, Angara went all-out for FPJ and became his main supporter.



Ah, politics -- it seems to be not only a case of "temporary alliances," but also of temporary reputations. Expediency is the name of the game.



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