Manila: Ten years after the “Hello Garci” controversy, Senator Grace Poe lamented that almost none of those allegedly involved in the 2004 poll fraud had neither been charged nor spent a single night in jail.
Taking the floor, Poe revived the 2004 poll fraud scandal, which she described as a “dark time in our nation’s history.”
The “Hello Garci” she was referring to was the alleged phone conversation between former President and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and then Commission on Elections commissioner Virgilio Garcillano during the 2004 elections. The call was allegedly about a plot to rig the results of the election in some areas in Mindanao.