The other retired AFP chiefs of staff who signed the statement were, namely, Victor Ibrado, Eduardo Oban and Alexander Yano. The other signatories of the ANI statement included AFP chiefs of staff Rodolfo Biazon (who subsequently got elected senator and later as Muntinlupa City congressman) and, Emmanuel Bautista who later served as social welfare secretary of former President Rodrigo Duterte. He later became the Executive Secretary for a short while under President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo following EDSA-2 when former President Joseph Estrada was ousted out of Malacañang. The ANI “public statement” was signed also by retired AFP chief of staff Renato de Villa who later served as Defense Secretary during the Ramos presidency. Incidentally, Farolan was for a while the editor-in-chief of The STAR. His Third Eye column comes out every Sunday. Leading the 20 signatories was our own STAR columnist, former Air Force commanding general Ramon Farolan. to tighten the checks and balances in order to revitalize the economy by proper usage of public funds so they are ‘not reduced by the corrupt…not squandered and not wasted,” the ANI declared their preamble. “We, retired senior military officers and government officials who advocate national interest, support the call of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. They identified their group as holding office at Suite 509, President Tower Bldg., 81 Tower Avenue in Quezon City. On that day of hearts, a group of retired AFP chiefs of staff affixed their respective signatures under a group they named as Advocates for National Interest (ANI). On Valentines Day, “A public statement on poverty, corruption, and injustice” was published as a full page paid advertisement at The Philippine STAR. Still influential, and powerful, health-wise, if I may add, Enrile turned 99 years old last Feb.14, coinciding with Valentines’ Day. Enrile works again in the Cabinet of PBBM as his Chief Presidential Legal Counsel. Now calling herself as “super Ate,” Imee is on her first term at the Senate. Eldest daughter Imee first got elected as Ilocos Norte Congresswoman in 1998 while younger brother Bongbong won his first term as Governor in their home province.įast forward. She, however, later got elected as Congresswoman in her home province in Leyte. Former First Lady Imelda Marcos ran but lost in the May,1992 presidential election that was won by Ramos. The Marcoses and their so-called “cronies” who fled the Philippines all gradually returned to the country. The rest of the story, as we say, is history. Subsequent events led to the late President Corazon Aquino, Ninoy’s widow, being swept into office after the Marcoses vacated Malacanang Palace. The late Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin initiated the call for “people power” that protected the Enrile-Ramos breakaway group at Camp Aguinaldo in EDSA, Quezon City. The Marcos family has moved on from what PBBM earlier described as “dark days” of the EDSA people power-driven uprising.Īided by key loyal officers in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), then Defense Minister Juan Ponce-Enrile and erstwhile PC-INP chief Fidel V.Ramos led the breakaway group of military and police allies that launched the coup d’ etat against FM presidency. Obviously, past is past as far as the Marcoses are concerned. 90 that included among the eight special non-working days the Feb.25 People Power Revolution Anniversary as well as the Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Day Aug.21 (Monday). To his credit, PBBM signed last year Proclamation No. (FM) was ousted and their entire family fled to self-exile in Hawaii.ĭubbed as the People Power anniversary, this is commemorated every year as a special non-working holiday. It was on Feb.25, 1986 when PBBM’s namesake father, former President Ferdinand Sr. This annual observance culminates on Feb. (PBBM) will observe the 37th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution this week. It is worth waiting how the present administration of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.
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