A Humble Opinion

By Jay Lee

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's personal Watergate (Gloriagate) is an issue that requires no further introduction. It is an issue that is gripping the Filipino people from matters of national importance. It is the opinion of this author that President Arroyo must resign her post if she truly cares about the welfare of our country. Allow the process of succession to begin. Since she stepped into the Office of the President, she and her family has been involved in series of scandals that has shaken the country and its government. Our fragile country can only take so much of this and prolonging these issues and allowing the country to go further into political turmoil and instability is unacceptable, considering the circumstances surrounding our nation. It is my belief that her administration can longer tackle the important issues that our nation must face.

The Gloriagate scandal greatly places into question her ability to effectively lead the country and the legitimacy of her leadership. Her sincerity to lead the country into the progressive nation we all aspire it to be, no longer matters. The Filipino people are absorbed into events that are crippling her administration and our government. It is a fact that if her administration is allowed to go on, it will spend its life trying to survive and live through this episode. Hence, her administration can no longer be effective.

It is our hope and prayer that the opposition has a great master plan, for the good of our nation, with this revelation of corruption within the present administration. It is inexcusable to think that all this is for the purpose of waltzing into the Office of the President and do nothing to serve the will of the Filipino people.

The Filipino people deserve something better from a government it installed into position with its consent. Quoting from the United States Declaration of Independence:

“…governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government…”

We remind our government that it is an institution established by the people to embody the ideals and aspirations of the Filipino people. We remind our government that they are in their position because of us – the Sovereign Filipino people.