Cory's Funeral A Holiday : Real Intention or Political Tactic?


Malacañang declared this Aug. 5 as a special non-working holiday for the Filipino to witness the late former President Corazon "Cory" Cojuangco-Aquino before she will laid to rest, beside her late husband, former Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. A mass will be held at 9 a.m. at the Manila Cathedral before the burial.

Deputy presidential spokesperson Lorelei Fajardo earlier announced that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has cut short her United States trip in order to make it to Aquino’s funeral service on Wednesday.

President Arroyo declared a 10-day period of national mourning (Aug. 1 to Aug. 10) over the death of Aquino through Proclamation No. 1850. Aquino, 76, succumbed to colon cancer on Saturday at 3:18 a.m.

In my opinion, Mrs. Arroyo would like to show us that she respects the late former president but the Arroyo's action towards her contradicts everything. Not even with former Presidenr Aquino but also to her late husband.

“Through the years, Mrs. Arroyo has praised my father consistently. How does one reconcile her words of praise for my father as a champion of democracy and a victim of injustice with her action of freeing those who carried out the injustice? Is this the way to show reverence to a person she claims to admire and whom she wanted to emulate on the 25th year of his martyrdom? One day even this wrong will be righted,” Noynoy said in a statement last year when the family marked the 25th death anniversary of Ninoy.


A political tactic that Mrs. Arroyo will do just to make her look good to the eyes of the Filipino people.

Maybe, it's a real intention... of a political move.

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