Citing humanitarian reasons, members of the House of Representatives endorsed the house arrest petition of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, now representative of Pampanga province. Arroyo suffers from “multiple cervical spondylosis”, a bone condition. She is presently detained at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center over a P366-million plunder charge but she wants to be detained at her house in the exclusive La Vista subdivision in Quezon City or her provincial residence. The final decision over Arroyo’s petition rests with the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan.
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