Chapter 3: G & B

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 March 15 1986, President Aquino, without prior consultation with Vice President Laurel, Defense Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile, and the key participants of the EDSA Revolution.

 Created a special cabinet Committee composed of, Justice Neptali Gonzales as chairman, Members of Parliament Luis Vilafuerte and Antonio Cuenco, Executive Secretary Joker Arroyo, Laurel himself, as members, to decide weather the new government would operate outside the 1973 constitution.

  • Gonzales propose the abolition of the constitution...
  • Enrile strongly opposed the idea...
  • Laurel likewise objected to the abolition...

 The United Democratic Opposition members of parliament  supported Laurel and Enrile's observation.

 The Parliament stays and reconvenes on May 12 1986 to adopt the proclamation of emergency powers.


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 Malacañang hatched another plan and suddenly executed it without the knowledge of Laurel, Enrile, the rebel officers, as well as the majority of the Parliament.

 "It was political treachery of the highest order." Laurel said.






 Recalling the incident, Laurel said: "we had agreed that the new majority would annul the proclamation of Marcos and Tolentino, that Cory and myself would instead be proclaimed..."  

 Meantime outgoing Prime Minister Cesar Virata, obviously oblivious of what was happening in Malacañang. 


 

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 Mrs. Aquino proceeded to read Proclamation No.3 abolishing the 1973 constitution, the Parliament, the Supreme Court, the office of the Prime Ministers, and all national and local positions.

 Laurel, Enrile, and the rest of the officials present could not believe their ears.
Furious and feeling betrayed.

 Any decision involving no less than the abolition of the constitution should have at least been discussed and debate with them. Yet they were not even consulted.


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 Laurel was right because when she demolished the infrastructure of dictatorship, she wrecked the entire political structure and thus derailed the application of much needed solutions to the country's worsening political, social, and economic problems.

 Laurel and Enrile were no longer invited to Malacañang except for cabinet meetings. Military intelligence reports that they used to receive every week stopped reaching them. Something was indeed cooking in Malacañang. 
 "And stoking the fires," Laurel recalled, "was the intense power struggle between two camps: one a left-leaning clique bereft of experience in statecraft that hated Enrile and the reformist officers and the other just as inexperienced but allied with big businesses." and the powerful catholic church.


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