The Kilusang Mayo Uno Labor Center in Negros yesterday said the call for the resignation of President Gloria Arroyo by renegade soldiers led by Sen. Antonio Trillanes and Gen. Danilo Lim is morally and politically right.

This will serve as a call for the Filipino people to push further the campaign to oust Arroyo, KMU Negros spokesperson Ronald Ian Evidente said.

In a statement the group issued, it said that this signals another wave of the ouster campaign against Arroyo. The Manila Peninsula siege reflects the discontent of the people in the administration that is again also alive within the ranks of armed forces, it said.

Trillanes, Lim and other Magdalo members walked out with their detailed military-police escorts from their hearing Thursday afternoon at the Makati Regional Trial Court, and later holed up at the Manila Peninsula Hotel.

They surrendered six hours later, after the police launched an assault.

“If the morally bankrupt administration of Mrs. Arroyo remains in power, our country will not be in a stable condition because GMA destabilizes the country with unending corruption, unresolved electoral fraud and continuous political killings of activists,” Evidente added in the statement.*

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