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Archbishop Calls on Arroyo
to Allow Impeachment Process
24 May 2006 - Blocking an impeachment process is an indirect "admission of guilt," an archbishop said yesterday.
As the opposition is set to file a new impeachment raps against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz said impeachment process should be allowed by "someone suspect" of corruption and vote rigging.
"It is specifically impeachment that provides the forum for the suspect to be heard, for the same to be cleared of such detestable suspicion," he said.
He claimed that one who avoids impeachment no matter the cost is moved by many other considerations - none of which has anything to do with what is right, true and just.
Last year, Arroyo's allies in the House killed an impeachment attempt against her based on technicalities.
Cruz said it is both poignant and perilous that impeachment process in the country has "become a matter of who is in tenure of power and influence, who can give and promise more favors, who has more partisan political allies."
"The CBCP has no less than thrice officially called for the search for truth about the 2004 elections," he said. "It also explicitly mentioned that an impeachment process is one way of letting the truth out."
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