If the voice of the people is the voice of God, were Joseph Estrada and Gloria Arroyo the choice of God? Gloria Arroyo herself has told the Associated Press that “Divine providence put me here. They had elected Juan Ponce Enrile, Jinggoy Estrada, Bong Revilla, and Lito Lapid senators. They had elected Joseph Estrada president and subsequently Gloria Arroyo. In 1998 it was Yale Law master and Commission on Elections chair Haydee Yorac and University of Michigan master of Business Administration and President Fidel Ramos’ Secretary of Finance Roberto de Ocampo. In the senatorial race of 1992, crowded out of the winning circle by the show business people were President Cory Aquino’s Health Secretary Alran Bengzon, Trade and Industry Secretary Joe Concepcion, and Solicitor-General Francisco Chavez. And of course, Manny Pacquiao, 8-division world boxing champion.
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Then there are/were TV personalities, newscasters Noli de Castro and Loren Legarda.Įlected to the Senate by virtue of the fame gained in the sports arenas were former Olympic and professional basketball players Freddie Webb, who later went into show business as the star of the TV sitcom Chicks to Chicks, and Robert Jaworski, also a movie bit actor. There is Grace Poe, daughter of Da King FPJ and movie queen Susan Roces. It should be noted though that their academic attainments prepared them better for their role in the Senate. There are others who rode to the Senate on the wings of their show business partners like Ralph Recto, husband of Box Office Queen Vilma Santos, and Francis Pangilinan, husband of Megastar Sharon Cuneta. Except for Sotto, the men do not have a college degree, some of them never had tertiary education. 1 medium of toilet humor, Lito Lapid, movie stuntman turned actor. Elected to the Senate by virtue of their popularity as entertainers have been the aforementioned actor Joseph Estrada, Ramon Revilla, Sr., the actor who gained fame and fortune for portraying another gangland character, Nardong Putik, their actor sons Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla, Tito Sotto, star of the TV noontime variety show, Eat Bulaga, the No. Diokno once reverberated, celebrities from show business and the sports world. People have also elected to the Philippine Senate, where the voices of intellectual giants like Manuel L. claimed he won over Gloria Arroyo in the presidential election of 2004 but the Nora Aunor look-alike, who was the incumbent president then by virtue of the ouster Joseph Estrada, had the results of the election altered.
Since then the people have elected as president Joseph Estrada, a college dropout turned actor best known for his portrayal of the underworld character Asiong Salonga, and Gloria Arroyo, who was made to look like the singer/actress Nora Aunor during her candidacy for various national positions, from senator to vice-president to president. The voice of the people is the voice of God, so let the people decide come election time, say personages of national stature.įree and democratic elections were restored after the approval of the new Constitution in 1987. When she falls pregnant just as the operation goes into overdrive, Falco is caught in a precarious web of lies and deceit from which he can see no escape.Īs he navigates his way through faked murders, armed confrontations, misjudged drug deals and gunpoint polygraph examinations, the season culminates with a massive, Fourth of July Outlaw rally at which Falco and his team finally face the ultimate moment of truth.Vox populi, vox Dei.
Together, they recruit a team of confidential informants to infiltrate not just the Mongols, but some of the most notoriously violent biker gangs out there: the Outlaws, the Pagans and the Merciless Souls.īut as ever, Falco’s personal life makes for complications, this time in the form of the seductive, free-spirited artist Sarah-Jane.
Introducing us to a raft of colorful new characters (and the surprise return of some old ones) this new season sees Falco’s wits tested to the limits as he joins ranks with Bullet: a grizzled, relentlessly driven undercover cop with a personal grudge against bike gangs. Before he knows it, he’s in over his head, and plunged into a world darker and more dangerous than anything he experienced with the Vagos. He’s desperately trying to fit in, but fueled by a restless unease and an inability to embrace his new world, he finds himself agreeing to sign up to a new undercover operation, this time against the Mongol bike gang. Almost two years on from the busts, he is living strange new life as a man with no identity in an unfamiliar Virginian town.
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Season 2 of Gangland Undercover picks up Charles Falco’s story as he seeks refuge from the aftermath of Operation 22 Green against the Vagos.
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