No Cha-cha during SONA, Nograles assures critics

Opposition lawmakers including Gabriela Rep. Liza Maza have expressed alarm at continued moves to amend the Constitution.
"This is a dangerous direction," she said in an interview with reporters after Nograles' speech.

Maza is one of the eight progressive lawmakers who announced that they will boycott Mrs. Arroyo's SONA later in the day.

"We will neither participate in waving con-ass nor listen to her windbags of deception," she said in a statement.

Mrs. Arroyo is expected to deliver her ninth - and supposedly last - SONA at 4 p.m. at the House plenary hall.