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Doctors' orders prevent me from attending budget interpellations, Arroyo says on Twitter

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The online news portal of TV5

Ex-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s medical condition makes it less easy for her to be publicly accessible. [See: Arroyo thanks docs for allowing stem cell treatment]

So whenever she is available on Twitter, InterAksyon seizes the moment to ask her questions—where else?—but on everyone’s favorite 140-character microblogging platform.

On Friday evening, the current Pampanga Representative’s Twitter account came alive, prompting InterAksyon’s Lira Dalangin-Fernandez to ask her about her interpellation on budget deliberations for this year.

 

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