MANILA - Senator Joker Arroyo said Tuesday that President Benigno Aquino III has achieved something that former dictator President Ferdinand Marcos is notorious for, but this time without having to declare martial law: the control of all three branches of the government "in the guise of transparency."The senator, who served as a key adviser of Aquino’s mother Cory when she was president, said that the impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona by the president’s allies in Congress had the “net effect” of President Aquino becoming an autocrat “without having to declare martial law, the way President Marcos did.”
For this, he said, President Aquino is “a genius, more than Marcos.”
Showing a diagram to reporters in the Senate, Arroyo explained that there are three branches of the government - the Executive, Legislative (Lower and Upper Houses), and the Judiciary - where Aquino would hold virtual sway if Corona is successfully ousted.
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