President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA) was put to jail and is now expected to spend Christmas and New Year’s Day in her Quezon City residence after the Supreme Court (SC) granted her holiday furloughs.

Chief Attorney Theodore Te being the former president of the SC Public Information Office, who is now in the government hospital for graft allegations will be also allowed to spend holidays at her residence from 8 in the morning of December 23, 2015 to 5 in the afternoon of December 26, 2015 and 8 a.m. on December 30 to 5 p.m. on Jan. 2, 2016.

There is also an accordance place where it will be held, No. 14 Badjao Street, La Vista Subdivision, Quezon City. According to Te, “It is understood that notwithstanding the furloughs the petitioner shall remain under preventive custody of the law,”

Asked to comment on the Supreme Court’s decision to grant GMA holiday furloughs, Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma said “We respect the decision of the Supreme Court.”