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Arroyo lifts emergency

P. S. Suryanarayana

SINGAPORE: Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Friday lifted the state of emergency that was proclaimed on February 24 on the basis of a perceived coup plot against her administration from within two elite units of the military forces. Ms. Arroyo said the "conspiracy" had been "thwarted." Expressing confidence that normality had now been restored, she said it was now time to "return to the proper work of society." The move follows a recommendation by a task force, which she had set up, that the emergency be lifted. The group said the problems arising out of the plot had been resolved. Adverse international reactions to the emergency and the post-emergency political lull on the domestic front are understood to have impelled the President to scrap the emergency within days of its imposition. She cited "a tactical alliance" between leftist forces and rightist "military adventurists" as the prime reason for the emergency.

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