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Despite hard times, Arroyo hires pricy foreign consultants for Charter Change

by Malou C. Mangahas

ON THE same day that she delivered her State of the Nation Address and summoned the nation to start “the great debate” on charter change, President Arroyo awarded a million-dollar lobbying consultancy contract to an American law firm to “secure grants and (US) congressional earmarks” for her initiative to “reshape the form of government…into a parliamentary federal system.”

Read more… | Posted Tuesday, September 13th, 2005