House ignores Aquino, hears postponement of barangay polls By Gerry Baldo 08/19/2010

House ignores Aquino, hears postponement of barangay polls

By Gerry Baldo 08/19/2010 President Aquino’s statement that he prefers to push through with the scheduled barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections, is being ignored by his allies in the House of Representatives as the House committee on suffrage and electoral reforms conducted its first hearing on the measure to postpone the Oct. 25 polls. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) was also open to the idea of postponing even as it stressed it is ready to proceed with the elections without a law postponing this. “I think it can be done. It’s only Aug. 18. Perhaps we can finish the committee report next week. We could submit the committee report on the floor a week after,” Cavite Rep. Elpidio Barzaga said.  Barzaga is the chairman of the committee on suffrage and electoral reforms. He said that the Senate will be doing the same thing. “Thereafter we can vote and I think the Senate, if it is the consensus of the senators, the Senate would be doing a similar thing,” Barzaga added..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100819nat1.html

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