P-Noy losing allies MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 06/22/2010

P-Noy losing allies

MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 06/22/2010 Early P-Noy campaign boosters Billy Esposo of the Philippine Star and Conrad de Quiros of the Philippine Daily Inquirer have turned out to be early critics of P-Noy. Their main complaint: P-Noy has announced defeated vice presidential teammate Mar Roxas is his alter ego and head of his transition team and has allowed him to take active control of the transition and the choice of Cabinet appointments. De Quiros labeled Roxas a doppelganger which means “a ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its fleshy counterpart.” There’s a one-year ban on appointments to a government position for a losing candidate. A losing candidate will be a bitter person who is likely to be vengeful, would not be emotionally stable and objective and would be most likely minded to recoup his expenses using his government position. Giving Mar Roxas so much power and active participation this early in P-Noy’s administration certainly violates the spirit of the law. Roxas lost the election, but he is certainly winning the infighting and getting most of the spoils. We bumped into Peping Cojuangco, Congressmen Amado Bagatsing and Tarzan Lazatin, Undersecretary Wencelito Andanar and 30 leaders of Pinoy Partriots, a citizens movement for P-Noy at Hotel Stotsenberg in Clark CDC Zone. They were highly critical of Mar Roxas. They even claimed that Mar Roxas went solo in his campaign when his survey ratings zoomed up to 53 percent and Noynoy dropped to 37 percent. Joining the unhappy group of Noynoy originals are Pastor Boy Saycon, Maria and Boy Montelibano and other leaders of the yellow army. President Ramos has advised P-Noy to start reconciling with his political enemies. It looks like he has a bigger problem with his political allies. By his policy of not “hurting” Mar Roxas, he is hurting so many other people. Nine days before inauguration day, P-Noy has not announced his Cabinet. It is clear that the P-Noy administration will not hit the ground running. And it takes three to six months for a Cabinet member to learn the job and take control of his department including choosing his key people.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100622com4.html

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