This was the reply of the umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan to the claims of the President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that the "titans of hate" continue to attempt to bring her down by engaging in the "politics of destruction".
"Malacañang's effort to stop investigations into questions of election fraud is the real destructive deed here. The administration's stonewalling tactics aggravate political tension and stir public unrest. What is destroying this administration is its own lack of legitimacy and credibility," said Bayan secretary general Renato M. Reyes, Jr.
"When the ruling administration chooses to engage in the politics of deception and repression, there can be no other result but political crisis. Arroyo should stop blaming her foes and start accepting her government's basic weakness, its lack of legitimacy," Reyes added.
Bayan earlier warned that the use of EO 464 and MC 108 to derails Senate investigations into Doble revelations will fuel public unrest and will add to public disenchantment with the Arroyo administration.
"Only a government with something to hide will be this paranoid with and contemptuous of the Senate investigation. The message we're getting is that Malacañang is again trying to cover up the truth," Reyes said.
Reyes also said that the administration cannot hide behind the "war in Mindanao" just so it can skirt the issue of the 2004 electoral fraud. "It is nothing but a self-serving attempt to avoid an issue that has long haunted the regime,"
"Because of what happened in 2004, everything done by this administration, including its declaration of an all out offensive in Sulu and Basilan, are now questionable acts. Invoking the fighting in Mindanao for such a self-serving cause is really pathetic," Reyes said.
"The public deserves to know the truth behind the wiretapping scandal and electoral fraud that happened in 2004," the Bayan leader added.
