Rep. Jose Carlos Lacson (Neg. Occ., 3rd District) said President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s revocation of  Executive Order 464 shows that the President “listens and is trying to cooperate.”

“Effective immediately, I am revoking Executive Order 464. Executive officials may no longer invoke E.O. 464 to excuse non-attendance from legislative inquiries,” the President said.

But opposition lawmakers said revoking EO 464 was not enough because the Palace can still invoke executive privilege.

Lacson said some people are blinded by certain issues that whatever action the president takes she is “damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t.”

“Whatever   she does apparently people have a way of turning things around…I think we should give the president enough credit where credit is due,” he said.

Her lifting of EO 464 frees Cabinet members to attend congressional hearings without having to ask permission from Malacañang or the president, Lacson said.

The matter of executive privilege is something that the   Supreme Court will have to rule on, Lacson added.

Meanwhile, mayors and members of the League of Governors of the Philippines are joining a thanksgiving mass for peace and unity at the Provincial Capitol in Bacolod City tonight, Acting Negros Occidental Gov. Isidro Zayco said.

It will just be a mass, it is nothing political, he said.

Close to 50 vice governors from various parts of the country are in Bacolod for the 35th National Assembly of the League of Vice Governors of the Philippines.*CPG

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