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Everything happens in this country in the first quarter of the year, and there’s a reason for it.

Every new year begins with the end of the Christmas holidays. Christian Filipinos take their religious holidays seriously, the celebrations of which they take the greatest pains to make memorable. Not accidentally is the most important religious holiday of all, Christmas, also the longest in Christian Philippines. It is the one holiday Filipinos look forward to, and to which they assign the highest expectations. That is why how Christmas is celebrated—how much people spent, how businesses fared, how brightly-lit neighborhoods are, etc.—has become a gauge of the country’s material as well as mental state. »

Two messages have been consistently beamed by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her allies in the House of Representatives to the nation since the effort to impeach Mrs. Arroyo failed last September 2005.

They repeated the same messages in the final days of 2005 and as the country entered a new year. These messages are the need for the country to “move on” from the ordeal of the political crisis that broke last summer, and the urgency of reforming the flawed political system. »