Making a mockery of autonomy
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Rushing a bill to postpone the August elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and synchronizing the polls with the 2013 national polls while kicking out the incumbent elected ARMM officials and replacing them with presidential appointees, smack of a very sinister Palace move.
It is sinister because what Noynoy, his Liberal Party and his allies in the House of Representatives want is to gain total control over ARMM — especially in the 2013 polls, for an LP victory, through its appointed officials, whose top governor-appointee, says Noynoy would be a “public administrator.”
Word has already been making the rounds that Noynoy’s choice of an unelected and unelectable to lead the ARMM is his current political adviser, leftist Rolando Llamas.
The claim is that kicking out the elected officials and replacing them with unelected presidential appointees is to effect reforms in the ARMM, which is much too lame a justification, considering the fact that too many in Noynoy’s executive branch, including Noynoy, can hardly be called “reformers” of government, apart from the proven fact that they even fail at governing..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110319com2.html
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