Four ex-military men who have joined the Philippine Senate, revealed plans Thursday to form their own small group in the Senate to be called the Cavaliers club. The group includes two senators who launched several failed mutinies against past and present administrations. But some of their meetings will have to be held in the jail where one of the members is incarcerated.

Re-elected Senator Panfilo Lacson, a former general who served both the Armed Forces of the Philippines and once as chief of the Philippine National Police, said the group will take on the Wednesday Group composed of Senators Manuel Villar, JoKer Arroyo, Francis Pangilinan and Ralph Recto. Vice President Noli de Casto was also a member of the Wednesday group when he was still senator.

Aside from Lacson, the other former military men are Sens. Rodolfo Biazon and Gregorio Honasan and current 11th placer in the official count of the national election board, former Navy officer Antonio Trillanes IV, who has yet to be proclaimed. Other than being ex-military men, the four were graduates of the Philippine Military Academy, the premier military school in the Philippines.

Lacson said, "We plan to form a Cavaliers Club. After all, we speak the same language. It would be easy for us to understand each other and perhaps our advocacies would be similar."

"So it's very easy for us to jell, the four of us. We talked about it yesterday] when I visited Sonny Trillanes, I discussed with him the possibility of banding together, for pursuing common advocacies for the good of the Senate, for the institution, not to be obstructionist," he added.

Trillanes is still detained in a military camp facing both a military and civilian court for participating in the failed mutiny in 2003 in an attempt to oust President Arroyo. Honasan launched a series of failed coup d 'etat against then former President Corazon Aquino in the 1990s. He was again charged by the Arroyo administration for his reported participation in the 2003 failed mutiny led by junior officers in the military, which includes Trillanes.

For this, Honasan has earned the reputation as the "Father of failed mutinies" in the Philippines.

Ironically, it was Biazon, former Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines at the time of the Aquino administration, who repelled Honasan's bid to throw the government.

Lacson said the Cavaliers Club could hold some of its meetings in Fort Bonifacio where Trillanes is jailed.