The Wire

Protests have been been a normal part of daily life in the Philippines since July and they don’t seem like stopping. The public is incensed with their President Gloria Arroyo with a recent opinion poll showing as many as four out of five filipino’s want her to resign. And the President just seems to keep getting into strife. First it was because tapes surfaced that her opponents allege to be a recording of Arroyo asking an electoral official to rig last years election, then her husband relocated overseas to avoid controversy over an illegal betting scandal and now she’s being accused of bribing the parliamentary members. Last week 15, 000 people took to the streets to call for her to go after they were let down by the political process. On the same day the parliament failed in its attempt to impeach the President and The Philippines Centre for Investigative Journalism allege they have found they failed to do so because Arroyo bribed congressmen to vote in her favour. Michael Atkin spoke to Alexander Remollino, a filipino activist and a spokesperson for Indymedia Philippines about the crisis.