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COMMENTARY COLUMN
by ANDEN ANADIA

'''President Arroyo, it seems to us, is prepared to answer charges against her through any legal means, except resignation. She has said she was prepared to submit herself to impeachment by Congress. She will not stop moves to file impeachment complaints against her in the House. A trial in the Senate, she believes, would clear her of charges that she manipulated or tried to manipulate the results of the 2004 presidential election.

Now President Arroyo is set to create a “truth commission” on the advice of the bishops and the country’s leading businessmen. The clerics and the business leaders said that a commission empowered to establish the facts about the charges against the President and to reach conclusions on the culpability or innocence of Mrs. Arroyo will restore calm to an agitated country.

Impeachment is provided for in the Philippine Constitution; an independent commission of the type suggested by the bishops requires executive action. For this reason, some critics have suggested that the Truth Commission is unconstitutional. Other critics claimed the commission will only get in the way of impeachment. At this point, the powers, scope of work and membership of the commission are hazy. The bishops gave us only a conceptual framework within which the commission would be created. Mrs. Arroyo still has to draft and issue the administrative order. What are the critics complaining about? Why this wave of criticism against the President?

The statement made by Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita is very useful. First, he clarified that the proposed presidential directive would be an administrative order, not an executive order. This means that the order requires an enabling resolution of both houses of Congress to empower the commission and to make it possible to allocate a budget for it.

If Congress agrees that a Truth Commission is necessary to ferret out the truth into the charges, then such a body will be organized. If it doesn’t, then what are the critics to worry about?

Second, the President will not appoint the members and chair of the commission. The administrative order will only suggest which sectors may be represented in the body. If there is agreement on the composition of the panel, then these sectors may name their representatives.

Me, from the start, has supported impeachment as a way out of the current crisis. It is the responsible and lawful approach to the controversy we are in. We have urged the President to encourage impeachment and not put an obstacle to it. A trial in the Senate is welcome. At the end of the process, the nation—as well as the President and the political opposition—should submit to its judgment.''' '''Will a Truth Commission duplicate impeachment? Perhaps. But in the welter of arguments and counterarguments in the Congress on the conduct of impeachment, which is taking time, the legislature may give way to the  commission. A smaller panel of upright and honest commissioners—weighed against a wrangling Congress—may work faster and arrive at conclusions more speedily.

The commission faces a great task. It will look not only into the charges of electoral fraud against the President but also into allegations of plots and conspiracies aimed at destabilizing the government, fomenting terror and installing a military-civilian junta.

The panel may well look into the discredited electoral system that has governed Philippine politics for decades and that has spawned the crimes imputed to the President and to many candidates and political parties that have taken part in elections. The system needs a thorough reexamination and an overhaul. This makes the work of the Truth Commission doubly important—apart from apportioning blame or clearing the blameless. '''