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                    [Title] => Sick mom forces Erap to leave rally
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Former President Joseph Estrada yesterday left the interfaith anti-Charter change (Cha-cha) rally in haste after receiving calls from doctors that his mother, Mary Ejercito, was in “very bad shape,” Estrada’s spokeswoman Margaux Salcedo said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2008-12-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 292434 [Title] => EDITORIAL – Going it alone [Summary] => In the end the battle between the two chambers of Congress over constitutional amendments will have to be decided by the Supreme Court. But in the meantime, the battle is being fought before the bar of public opinion. And so far, while there are people who are skeptical about the need for Charter change or Cha-cha, hardly any tears are being shed over the prospect that the House of Representatives may go it alone and bypass the Senate to amend the Constitution.
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The best way to kill this initiative is to give the impression that it is meant merely to benefit certain individuals. That was why the Cha-cha initiative during the Ramos administration failed; its main objective was clearly to perpetuate Fidel Ramos in power.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 191800 [Title] => More of the same [Summary] => The present furor over Charter change (Cha-cha) is a rehash of what happened in 1996-97 when attempts were also made to amend our constitution. The oppositors are the same and they belong to the same sectors who vehemently resisted the move at that time. [DatePublished] => 2003-01-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133340 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804883 [AuthorName] => Jose C. Sison [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => Sick mom forces Erap to leave rally
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Former President Joseph Estrada yesterday left the interfaith anti-Charter change (Cha-cha) rally in haste after receiving calls from doctors that his mother, Mary Ejercito, was in “very bad shape,” Estrada’s spokeswoman Margaux Salcedo said yesterday.

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The best way to kill this initiative is to give the impression that it is meant merely to benefit certain individuals. That was why the Cha-cha initiative during the Ramos administration failed; its main objective was clearly to perpetuate Fidel Ramos in power.
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