Constitutionally, it is right for the new Malacañang tenant to fire, through Executive Order 2 (EO2) the so-called midnight appointees, on the basis of the clear election ban. The question, however, is if all those the Palace claims — some close to 1,000 appointments made by his predecessor, Gloria Arroyo — are truly midnight appointments, meaning to say, appointments made when the election ban period was in force and effect. Apparently, even as the EO2 was released the other day — albeit dated June 30, 2010, which EO was clearly antedated, as the EO2, much less EO1, could not have been drafted and signed on that official half-day Noynoy Aquino had spent in Malacañang — neither Noynoy nor the Palace aides know for certain, just who are the so-called midnight appointees or even how many of them, leaving this matter to several of his officials to determine. This in turn will bring on a slew of court cases against Noynoy, through his Palace aides. But here’s the thing: How effective are these EOs of Aquino, especially as he does not appear to have their replacements? Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100806com2.html |
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