Word: batasang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radio installations. That evening, one RAM officer reportedly called Ramos and urged him to join the revolt. When the Chief of Staff refused, the officer is said to have replied, "Then we'll go it alone." Later that night, as Enrile was attending a meeting of former Batasang members, six truckloads of troops, presumably under orders from Ramos, surrounded the area while another contingent went to Camp Aguinaldo, headquarters of the Defense Ministry...
...anticipate that the President would get out," he said. "He had the constitution. But we had the people with us." The scheme worked, but it left Aquino presiding over a government that is legally outside the constitution. Thus early this week she is expected to ask the Batasang Pambansa, or National Assembly, to nullify its Feb. 15 resolution proclaiming Marcos the winner of the election. The former President's departure has persuaded most legislators in his New Society Movement (K.B.L.) / to promise Aquino their backing. A new resolution recognizing her as the victor is expected to pass...
...were ratified in a carefully orchestrated 1981 referendum, which he carried with 80%. The same year, he won a presidential election against a toothless opponent and also got approval for a constitutional amendment that stretched his four-year term to six years. In 1984 Marcos held elections for the Batasang Pambansa, or National Assembly. Opposition politicians won roughly one-third of the seats. Despite widespread accusations of cheating, the elections were judged acceptable by the Philippine community at large...
...President had publicly prophesied a routine landslide victory for his Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (K.B.L.), or New Society Movement. Even the opposition umbrella group known as UNIDO (United Nationalist Democratic Organization) had prudently set its sights no higher than raising the number of opposition seats in the 200-member Batasang Pambansa (National Assembly) from 14 to 30. Final results will not be in until this week, but according to NAMFREL's estimate last Saturday, opposition parties had won 30 seats and were leading in 34 others...