Tiglao’s conspiracy just meant to sow intrigue

As an apologist of the Arroyos, Rigoberto Tiglao’s persistent defense of impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona is expected because the two of them served under the reviled presidency of the now detained Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

But the Feb. 16 piece of Tiglao was really one for the books, insofar as outlandish conspiracy theories are concerned, because I am sure that Vice President Jejomar Binay himself would deny being the “real target” of the Aquino administration in impeaching Corona.

Tiglao’s premise—that the Aquino administration wants to control the Supreme Court, which is concurrently the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, so that Transportation Secretary Mar Roxas could win his vice presidential electoral protest against Binay—is simply absurd.

Clearly, Tiglao was just trying to sow intrigue and division within the administration by riling up those who supported Binay alongside President Aquino in the 2010 elections.

Corona’s impeachment is in line with P-Noy’s agenda to reform and cleanse the Judiciary so that the rogue elements within its ranks, led by Arroyo’s “midnight appointee” in Corona, could not pose obstacles to the President’s daang-matuwid.

—ROWELA QUILAT,

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