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Solon slams farcical polls consultation in ARMM 03/17/2011

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Solon slams farcical polls consultation in ARMM

03/17/2011
A member of the minority bloc in the House of Representatives yesterday slammed the Aquino administration for duping Muslims into a farcical polls consultation in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) the results of which it had totally disregarded as it is already bent on deferring the ARMM elections till 2013 as manifested by the actions of its allies in the Lower Chamber.

At the weekly press briefing, Zambales Rep. Milagros “Mitos” Magsaysay said that at the very onset, the consultations called for by Malacañang was already suspect as the bill seeking the postponement of the ARMM elections and allowing President Aquino to appoint officers-in-charge, had already been approved by the House committee on suffrage and electoral reforms and is set to be deliberated at the plenary.
“This is one of the strangest approaches in crafting a bill. To hold public consultations after the bill had already been approved at the committee level,” said Magsaysay. “And the futility of this exercise had only been validated after the committee on suffrage disregarded the results of the consultation and decided to submit its report on the ARMM polls bill to the plenary for deliberations.”.... MORE

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