The GMA resign movement should make two pledges to the Filipino people

They are:

1) New credible/clean presidential elections ASAP once Arroyo is out. The voters will get to choose the best alternative.

2) Revamp the COMELEC immediately and replace the commissioners with people whose integrity are unquestioned.

Long term goal is to institute major reforms in the COMELEC so that a repeat of 2004 election fiasco will not happen in the future.

Because Filipino voters want to be re-assured na once GMA is gone (thru resignation, impeachment or PP4), the new presidential elections will not be as fucked up as the last one.

I keep hearing after Arroyo is removed, WHAT'S NEXT? There's "no credible alternative" raw. So we're better off keeping the fake president na lang, because yung papalit sa kanya ay mas malala pa.

That's what the pro-Arroyo types are constantly repeating.

I say, the GMA resign movement is offering something better than just an alternative. They are returning the Constitutional right of Filipinos to choose their own leaders, their own presidents, their own alternatives -- something that was denied to them by the Arroyo administration noong 2004 by stealing the elections.

Hindi importante kung ano yung gusto kong alternatibo or kandidato, o yung gusto ng opposition, o yung gusto ng administration, o yung gusto ni Susan, GMA, Cory or Lacson. Ang importante ay kung anong gusto ng Filipino Voters, at kung sino ang ibinoto nila.

If another administration candidate wins the post-GMA presidential elections, at mukhang credible naman ang election (katulad nung 1998), I can live with that.

They say na si Gloria Macapagal Arroyo lang raw ang "pagasa ng bayan", na siya ang "savior" ng Pilipinas, and the "alternatives are worse" than GMA. That's what her allies keep repeating in PEx and in the media.

I call A-ss on those statements.

You're telling me walang matitinong candidates from the admin and the opposition side? I can name five that are way much better than GMA: Bayani Fernando, Ping Lacson (if he survives Aragoncillo-gate), Mar Roxas, Serge Osmena, Richard Gordon. Three from the administration, two from the opposition. I'm sure all of them are better alternatives than Mrs. Arroyo.

Isa pa, there are some who think na si Noli raw ang dapat pumalit kay GMA, kasi siya ang "constitutional successor." In the first place, kung lumabas ang GLORIAGATE tapes 2 weeks after GMA was proclaimed last year, would these people still be saying na si Noli de Castro ang dapat na pumalit, even though nandiyan pa rin yung challenger na si FPJ?

Di parang sinabi mo na rin na yung deputy Ukrainian prime minister ang dapat pumalit kay Yanukovych nung nalaman na may dayaan sa election nila.

Or it's like saying Marcos should have been replaced by Arturo Tolentino (o yung sumunod pa sa kanya, ala Drilon) dahil siya rin ang "constitutional successor" ni Marcos. LMAO!

At kung nahuli kaagad na nandaya si GMA sa election, it doesn't mean na automatic na magiging presidente si FPJ. We will have to do an "election rerun," katulad nung nangyari sa Ukraine, where Yushchenko eventually won. Ganyan kasi ang solusyon kapag may dayaan sa eleksyon in most parts of the world.

So ang trabaho lang talaga ni VP Noli is to become "acting president" once Arroyo is out... at ino-organize pa ang bagong elections.

Sa COMELEC issue naman, napaka-importante rin ito dahil sa 2007 elections, and you can bet na having survived GLORIAGATE, GMA will help some of her more vulnerable allies in congress "win" their respective elections, so she will have enough Tongressmen na taga-patay ng impeachment complaints in the future.

And with this corrupt Arroyo COMELEC in charge, you can be sure na "papasa" rin ang Cha-cha proposal in some future "referendum", using the same dagdag-bawas techniques that was so effective in 2004.