The new Ampatuans FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 06/01/2011

The new Ampatuans

FRONTLINE

Ninez Cacho-Olivares

06/01/2011
From yesterday’s hearings at the Senate on the postponement of the elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, it was pretty clear that all Noynoy and his officials want is to cancel the ARMM polls, kick out the elected incumbents and replace them with Noynoy’s appointees who may even run for the polls when synchronized, and may keep their OIC seats longer than August 2013.

The Noynoy officials, such as Jesse Robredo, Teresita Deles and Rolando Llamas, to name a few, who were present at the ARMM hearing, were all invoking reforms in the ARMM as their justification for the “postponement” of the polls and the synchronization of elections.

Reforms to them, appears to be the magic word: The Constitution and the ARMM Organic Law can be breached, in the name of reforms. Noynoy can certainly kick out the incumbent elected officials and replace them in the name of reforms and all of these can be done because, as they claimed, Noynoy has “residual powers.”.... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110601com2.html