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Ninez Cacho-Olivares
07/02/2010Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Renato Corona turned out to have a lot more good manners and proper breeding than the freshly-minted president, Noynoy Aquino.
He could have made himself unavailable for the inaugural rites, already having been insulted by Noynoy when he chose to have an associate justice swear him in. But he attended it anyway, as he was probably thinking more of the institution than himself.
It was, however, unpardonable of Noynoy to leave Corona out in acknowledging the presence of the special guests at this inaugural, merely acknowledging the “members of the SC.”
And yet Noynoy pledged, in his maiden speech, that he will uphold the law and the Constitution, even as it is clear that while the law and the Charter say that Corona is not a midnight appointee of Gloria Arroyo, he still refuses to acknowledge Corona as the Chief Justice of the high court... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100702com2.html
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