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Quirino officials back President GMA

CABARROGUIS, Quirino—Setting aside political stripes, local officials of this southern Cagayan Valley province rallied behind the administration of President Arroyo amid calls by some groups for her to step down due to allegations of widespread corruption involving her family and political allies.

Representative Junie Cua of this landlocked province’s lone congressional district, and his son, Gov. Dakila Carlo Cua led other elective local officials expressing "unwavering and wholehearted" support for Mrs. Arroyo’s continued stay as President.

In their manifesto passed at the height of last Friday’s so-called interfaith rally attended by thousands of anti-Arroyo protestors, the local officials here called for "an end to the agitations by detractors to unseat the President through unconstitutional means…"

"We oppose all unconstitutional political gimmickry to destabilize the Arroyo administration and to stop political bickering for the sake of the country…and instead rally behind the government’s determined effort to move the country forward through economic development," their manifesto states.

Besides the local officials, the manifesto was also signed by provincial and municipal leaders of the province’s Sangguniang Kabataan federation.

Earlier, Governors Luisa Lloren Cuaresma of Nueva Vizcaya and Grace Padaca of Isabela also expressed support to the Arroyo administration’s program of development for the country.

However, the two women governors said there was no need for the Senate investigation on the NBN-ZTE deal to stop in order for the truth to come out. CCL

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