What gall!
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Honesty, transparency, accountability and reforms are the Noynoy administration’s buzzwords and its justification for committing so many perceived unconstitutional acts.
Just recently, the Solicitor-General filed a motion for reconsideration before the high court, seeking to lift the temporary restraining order (TRO) imposed by the Supreme Court (SC) on the postponement of the elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), but which legislative measure also vests the President with the power to appoint officers in charge (OICs) for the ARMM’s elective seats.
The Solgen stated that in effect, the high court’s TRO stopped the reforms that should have been implemented in the ARMM, through the Noynoy appointed OICs, apart from arguing that the high court had already ruled as unconstitutional holdover positions.
It is as if it is not seen as unconstitutional or irregular that Noynoy is given that power to appoint OICs in place of elected ARMM officials, or the fact that the “holdover” status came to fore, precisely because Noynoy and his boys refused to have the ARMM polls push through.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110923com2.html
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senseless but deceptive use of the holy term "reforms." utak at budhi mo, "pangulong" a_noy y hocus pcos, ang dapat ireporma.
"If reforms in the national government could not be effected in the more than one year of Noynoy’s administration, what guarantee is there that reforms can be effected by Noynoy appointees in the ARMM?
"Structural reforms can only be made with amendments to the ARMM law and the Constitution. Without these structural changes, what is likely to happen is that it will only bring about a change of faces."
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