Anti-Corona losing steam

Here's the dilemma.


The interest of Malacanang is really an expeditious ending to this impeachment trial. The more this trial drags, the better chance for Corona to be acquitted of all charges.


Seriously, this case could actually last for forty weeks, by which time, public sentiment against Corona would have seriously been reversed. And by that time, it would be hard for anti-Corona forces to muster enough numbers to conduct a "people power" exercise against the Chief Justice.


However, I give credit to the prosecution because they are slowly closing in on Corona, with all these pieces of evidence showing real properties bought by the Coronas without being shown in his SALN.


I heard that the prosecution will force the Senator-judges to vote on Article 2, which is sufficient to impeach Corona. This explains why Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile is expediting the offering of evidence and making it easy for the prosecution to present and enter these as pieces of evidence. 


I know the defense knows this but the more pieces of evidence, irrefutable evidence at that presented before the impeachment court, the more chances of a guilty verdict for the beleaguered Chief Justice. The problem really is, the public's waning interest about the case. The trial has been, what, on its fourth week, and since the prosecution has failed to present their most explosive witness yet, this is beginning to turn into a dragging courtroom drama which is interesting only to those who love reading John Grisham or watching mock courts. 


Lastly, as time passes, Noynoy Aquino is building for himself, more enemies, while Corona continues to get support from unlikely sources, something of a political phenomenon, if you will.

People Power against Chief Justice Renato Corona

Talks are rife that DSWD secretary Dingky Soliman reportedly met with several key leaders of the Black and White Movement (BWM), together with different cause-oriented groups to stage, what is the biggest gathering of people against Chief Justice Renato Corona. 


Soliman and the rest of the groups want to pressure Corona to resign ahead of the outcome of the on-going impeachment trial. Soliman says several sources, is worried over the fate of the impeachment, which, some quarters say, is turning into a non-issue as the trial drags on. 


As I wrote in this corner several days before, this impeachment trial will go the way of Corona if it drags on until March, 2012. The faster this goes, the more chances Malacanang will get what it wants--an outright ouster.


Seriously now, the "heat" generated by the impeachment trial is actually slowing down. Ask people, and you'll find that they are more concerned with the lessening power of the peso than Corona's fate. They're more concerned about their fate, instead of someone who is perceived to be "corrupt" without any evidence to support such claims.


Unless the prosecution panel comes up with an explosive witness, this trial will drag on and this will lose a substantial amount of public interest. If the defense succeeds in isolating Malacanan and reveals that the people is disinterested in pursuing such a trial and only those in the elites close to the Powers-that-be want this Chief Justice out, then, it will win this battle.