Erap: No need to put GMA in jail
MANILA, Philippines - Former president Joseph Estrada on Friday said he sees no need to move jailed former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to a regular prison.
"I think she can continue to beheld in hospital arrest not because she is a former president because I myself suffered being incarcerated in a regular prison but because she is a woman. It's not out of respect for a former president because no one is above the law but maybe we can afford some leniency because she is a woman," Estrada said.
Estrada was ousted from the presidency after a four-day bloodless revolt in January 2001. He was jailed and later found guilty of plunder but granted executive clemency by his successor, Arroyo.
Arroyo is currently facing electoral sabotage charges. She is under hospital arrest at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City.
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I beg to disagree
I support you Mr. Former President but with your line of reasoning, we might as well close the Women's Correctional.
We are now the laughing stock of the whole world because in our country, the rich and the powerful always get away with the law. Let us also rename the VMMC and St. Lukes to be correctional institutions for the rich and famous.
So DUMB!
He needs to shut his mouth if he has nothing good thing to say, completely useless. He is certainly unfit to be the President of the Republic of the Philippines. Or I might be wrong, if this was just happened to be one of those Erap jokes. Either or, he is retireded. I don't know why ABS CBN NEWS even bothered to get his side. A regular teacher can give a better opinion than he is.