Comelec setting stage for anarchy 04/17/2010

Comelec setting stage for anarchy

04/17/2010 The Commission on Elections (Comelec)’s refusal to throw out the provisions of its latest Resolution 8804 which robs election stakeholders their right to contest election returns and question canvassing results may well lead to an anarchic situation right on polling day. Candidates, poll watchers and even voters may well go to the streets on May 10 unless Comelec withdraws its latest restrictions on voters’ rights, said the Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) in a statement issued to the media yesterday. Prof. Bobby Tuazon, CenPEG director for policy studies, said the poll body’s removal of defective election returns (ERs) as ground for a pre-proclamation complaint, effectively takes away a legal remedy available to aggrieved election parties. Rubbing salt to the injury, he added, is limiting the grounds for pre-proclamation legal controversies to only two issues -- on the composition of the Board of Canvassers (BoC) and on its proceedings.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100417hed1.html

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