Malacañang said Monday it welcomed Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales objections to calls for “people power” rallies in case of cheating in the national and local elections.

Deputy Presidential Spokesman Gary Olivar said Rosales’s counsel is “well-meant” and represents a “sober and accurate analysis” of the country’s political situation.

Olivar encouraged the people to follow the example of prudence and level-headedness of “one of the princes of the Philippine Church” in the coming elections.

“There are no objective conditions, no objective basis for ‘street adventurism’ from any quarter no matter how well intentioned they are,” Olivar said in a news conference at the Palace.

“We are gratified by the position taken by the Cardinal who is obviously a man of peace who speaks for a Church that is committed to peace, and we hope that our countrymen who belong to the same Church, as all of us do, will heed his words, and follow the example of prudence and level-headedness that he is counseling us as a shepherd to his flock,” he said.

In citing the ability of the country’s institutions to deal with any trouble that may arise in the elections, Olivar said the country’s democratic institutions are "in much better shape" today since the EDSA bloodless uprisings in 1986 and 2001.