Arroyo sets 1st Pampanga visit after announcing 2010 bid

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will pay yet another visit to her home province of Pampanga Wednesday, this time to unveil a marker for a P75-million chapel. It will be President Arroyo's first visit to Pampanga after she announced last November 30 her plan to run for congresswoman of the province's second district. A Malacañang statement said the marker would be for the Holy Guardian Angel Chapel of the Holy Angel University - Central Luzon's biggest and largest private university that has 16,000 students and 900 employees - in Angeles City. President Arroyo had visited Pampanga at least 50 times so far this year. Arroyo critics said the President would use the House of Representatives as her stepping stone to the position of prime minister once her allies in Congress succeed in pushing for a shift to the parliamentary form of government through Charter change. At least two disqualification cases - one filed by Akbayan Rep. Risa Hontiveros and another by presidential aspirant Ely Pamatong - are now pending with the Commission on Elections (Comelec). The Palace statement said that in Wednesday's event, a Mass would follow the inaugural ceremony for the Holy Guardian Angel Chapel. "The chapel, dedicated to the Holy Guardian Angel, patron saint of the school and the city, serves as a shrine to an antique image commissioned in 1830 by Don Angel Pantaleon de Miranda, founder of the university," the Palace said. - KBK, GMANews.TV