President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will continue to listen to the concerns of members of the clergy in Negros Occidental who have called for her resignation because she is the president not only of the people who support her but of her critics as well, her son Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo (Pampanga, 2nd District) said yesterday.

Their call for the president’s resignation is well within their right but the president has said she will not step down until her term ends in 2010, he said.

The president remains focused on work to uplift the lives of the people and to move the country forward, he said.

Meanwhile, the solon said the does not think the Senate hearings on the controversial National Broadband Network deal will get anywhere.

The purpose of any hearing must be in aid of legislation, he said.

In all the Senate’s supposed controversial hearings not a single piece of significant legislation has come out, he noted.

On Senate witness Rodolfo Noel Lozada’s visit to Bacolod today, the president’s son said “I don’t know if he is a whistleblower or a marketing agent, I’m confused.”

The solon would not name who he thought were behind Lozada, saying “anyway the people know who are behind him.”

Lozada himself said late last year he was talking to some senators.

On his mother’s endorsing the merger of the Lakas-Christian Muslin Democrats and the Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino, the solon said ideally it is good but members of both parties will have to be consulted.

We have about a year to finalize a merger, everybody wants to come out of a merger a stronger individual politician, Rep. Arroyo said.*CPG

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