ARMM polls delay voids autonomy safeguards — solon
03/20/2011House Minority Leader and Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman yesterday scored Malacañang for insisting on postponing the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao elections scheduled this August, saying House Bill (HB) 4146 which President Aquino has certified as urgent violates all the built-in safeguards on autonomy in the ARMM.
In a statement sent to the media, Lagman said postponing the elections in the ARMM and allowing Aquino to appoint
In a statement sent to the media, Lagman said postponing the elections in the ARMM and allowing Aquino to appoint officers-in-charge (OICs), is by itself, violative of the organic which created ARMM as it negates the very concept of the autonomy the region is supposed to enjoy.
On interpellation early this week by Lagman, Cavite Rep. Elpidio Barzaga, chairman of the sponsoring Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms, categorically admitted that the Organic Act constituting ARMM, as amended, protects and preserves self-determination and self-governance in ARMM by providing for: (a) Periodic and regular elections; (b) Holdover of incumbent ARMM officials until their successors are elected and qualified;.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110320hed6.html
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