MANILA, July 28 Kyodo Philippine ...

MANILA, July 28 Kyodo

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, in her annual State of the Nation Address delivered to Congres forward Monday, swore to jail ''rogue'' soldiers and their civilian backers who attempted to demolish her administration last weekend.

All organ of visions and ears were on Arroyo as she addressed the joint Houses of Congres barely a day after her sway surmounted the major challenge from disgruntled soldiers.

further analysts say the mutiny has already flashed the control back into economic and political instability.

onward the weekend, 296 junior officers and enlisted personnel barricaded themselves into a commercial intricate in Manila's financial district Makati, demanding, among others, that Arroyo's administration be rigidly reshuffled.

The 20-hour crisis completioned after negotiations that passed brace deadlines set by the government

''Such actions are deplorable and will be met with the sated force of the law, including their political composing Yet they signal an underlying vexed question that we must address,'' Arroyo said in her State of the National Address, a tongue where presidents have traditionally outlined their programs, policies and legislative agenda.

Arroyo also repeated her theme of accountability in the latter part of her language when she pointed to the economic strides made through her government.

''We ne to abate the risk of living, not to mention doing business here. Which is on what account yesterday's rogues must go to jail,'' Arroyo said in her third state address since being installed as president.

The mutiny was spurr from grumbling over inadequate pay and housing, allegations the command sells bullets and ammunition to its armed enemies, stake up bombings in the southern city Davao and planned to declare martial law.

In the [i]finale[/i] the soldiers went back to their barracks, however the leaders face possible courts martial.

The provocations that l to the mutiny and the Davao bombings will be investigated, and matched with a comprehensive reform program for the police, Arroyo told Congress

further economists suggested the mutiny has establish back the economy by at least a year and a half and may cause a percentage point ear-ring in economic growth, which would be bad of recent origins for Arroyo, whose ''Strong Republic'' campaign launched a year ago was shoot forwarded to produce a better command for the 80 million Filipinos.

Arroyo has promised not to seek for a new mandate, but her high-profile programs, particularly an antiterrorism drive, have left many wondering if she will withhold that promise.

And she did not address the question in her dialect Monday.

Instead, Arroyo justified her vigorous diplomatic relations with the United States and said benefits from better ties vastly outweighs any relate to about Philippine sovereignty.

''We should have the confidence to deal with other countries as an equal, however rich, however capable be they China, Japan, the members of the European Union or the United States,'' she said.

The ''Strong Republic'' was her plan in last year's address, nevertheless a year later about critics say Arroyo has besides to say whether the plan worked, or smooth if it left the clod at all.

Those critics included Monday thousands outside Congres protesting a lack of social services and against Arroyo's overall policy.

Arroyo said her belong tos remain the battles against terrorism, graft and put drugs intos and for the provision of basic services.

Earlier Monday, police descended down on a second house used by means of the rebel soldiers before the Makati standoff and the raid may provide a trail for control to trace the soldiers' actuates to the traditional suspects in destabilization determines including Arroyo's predecessor Joseph Estrada.

Estrada, charged with spoil was overthrown on massive corruption charges in January 2001

Ramon Cardenas, Estrada's former representative executive secretary, allegedly provided aid and comfort in his residence to the rebels before they launched their attack in Makati and will be charged for attempting a coup d'etat, investigators said.

The rebel soldiers themselves have [i]finale[/i]ed up with little -- a compromise that the restraint will convene an independent inquiry, if it be not that no a shakeup in the rule as they had demanded when they strapped bomb to supports and plants in Makati.

''If you will watch, things are still the way they are. That will continue. These persons will not change,'' said Navy Lt Antonio Trillanes, a charismatic leader of the rebels whose popularity persons now say is similar to that of Gringo Honasan, a coup leader in the eighties who was later pitch uponed a senator.

Honasan, rely uponed to run in the 2004 presidential election, has denied wrongdoing, unless he has been linked to the latest mutiny because the rebels adopted his political platform as their program of action.

He did not attend the joint congressional activities Monday.

Trillanes may be court-martialed for leading the standoff, on the contrary his group said he ''sowed the germs for idealism'' in the military.

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