She can run for Congress…~,~,

The Inquirer.net’s Lira Dalangin reported this afternoon that the President (L’Arlesienne by Van Gogh (1888), supra, a portrait of his landlady,)

had hinted she was not ready to retire in 2010 and might run for Congress.

When her term ends in 2010, those criminal complaints filed and to be filed against her, can now be given due course, and she can, on probable cause, be criminally indicted. Running and winning a seat in Congress would grant her immunity from arrest only for offenses punishable with prision correccional or less (six months and one day to six years; or less). This means a congressman/ senator enjoys immunity from arrest only for offenses punishable with NOT MORE than six years imprisonment. This means that for crimes punishable with prision mayor up to life, she, after 2010 and if she indeed runs and wins a house/ senate seat, would still be criminally indictable for any of said crimes punishable with six years and one day to life imprisonment. Even if she wanted to preside over the changing of the Constitution and ran for another post to allow her to do that, she still sheds her immunity after 2010.

She can run but she can’t hide, no pun meant.