Swearing in SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 06/23/2010

Swearing in

SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 06/23/2010 Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino’s sisters Ballsy Aquino-Cruz, Pinky Aquino-Abellada and Kris Aquino-Yap have already inspected the Quirino Grandstand at Rizal Park in Manila where his inauguration as the Philippines’ 15th president will take place on June 30. The family wants the inauguration rites to be simple. When President-elect Aquino calls on Malacañang on June 30 and rides in a limousine with outgoing President Arroyo to the Quirino Grandstand, the Filipino people will be watching. No doubt many will be looking avidly at what people are wearing or where Noynoy’s famous sister Kris will be seated. The wags will talk about who were there and who weren’t, and what the new President said. Indeed, the upcoming presidential inauguration is on everybody’s minds — well, most everybody’s, that is. For some people, it’s a formality that has ceased to have meaning, certainly not after one too many presidents had fudged the job they swore to do. Is President-elect Aquino up to the job ahead? Before his proclamation by Congress, he had told reporters that for his inauguration (although he did not want to sound too presumptuous), he wanted the event to be “a people’s celebration” before the “hard work” begins — that is, before “all the problems of the Arroyo administration were ‘passed on to us,’” he is quoted in the report. For now, at least, one thing has been settled. After all the furor about the Gloria Arroyo-appointed Chief Justice that Aquino had requested she leave off for the next president, he has invited Associate Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales of the Supreme Court to administer his oath of office on June 30. After all, he had already made it clear that if elected, he would not want to be sworn in by Arroyo’s former legal adviser and appointed Chief Justice Renato Corona.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100623com7.html

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