Deluge of cases seen to query EO 2’s legality By Charlie V. Manalo 08/06/2010

Deluge of cases seen to query EO 2’s legality

By Charlie V. Manalo 08/06/2010 The so-called midnight appointees of former President Arroyo will not take Executive Order no. 2 sitting down with many of the 977 ordered terminated indicating that they will challenge President Aquino’s order before the Supreme Court, a spokesman for former President and Rep. Gloria Arroyo said yesterday.  EO 2, issued the other day, revoked appointments made by the previous administration near the national elections last May 10 saying these violated the “intent and spirit of the constitutional ban on midnight appointments.”  Former Presidential Manage-ment Staff (PMS) head and now Arroyo’s chief of staff Elena Bautista–Horn said a number of the terminated Arroyo appointees might bring the issue to the high court on the ground that the constitutionality of EO No. 2 is questionable as it is only based on an interpretation of the 1987 Constitution. Legislators, meanwhile, urged President Aquino to either recall or refine the executive order as Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara and Northern Samar Rep. Emil Ong shared the view that EO 2 could trigger an avalanche of criminal and administrative cases filed by civil servants against Malacañang. “They have a legal recourse, a strong legal basis to stay at their posts. Their appointments were legal, it was an act of the president prior to the prescriptive period,” Horn said..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100806hed6.html

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