First big battle of the 2010 elections

Posted by karlom87 on February 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The novelty of the New Year has faded. The first month of 2008 has paved the way for the second. And the wistful state associated with the holidays has now been replaced with frenzied political bickering. This can only grow more turbulent from month to month until 2010.

The plot to oust Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. is only the first of many more intra-elite squabbles leading up to the 2010 presidential elections. A political analyst interviewed in ANC remarked â€œIn many ways this is the first big battle of the 2010 presidential elections.â€

â€¦the fight for House leadership is connected to the scrapped $329 million broadband deal between the Philippine government and Chinaâ€™s ZTE Corp. It was De Veneciaâ€™s son, businessman Jose de Venecia III, who blew the whistle on the deal, saying that it was overpriced to accommodate million-dollar bribes to government officials.

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