星期一 [ 2010-1-11 9:51:28 | watches1013 ]   Opposition confident of victory in '07 polls Byline: ANNA LIZA T. VILLAS The United Opposition Fake Montega Watches (UNO) is convinced it would emerge victorious in the upcoming May elections, as UNO president and Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay unabashedly predicted a landslide victory at a convention of regional leaders and allies held in in San Juan yesterday Opposition bigwigs who attended included Senator Jinggoy Estrada, former senators Nikki Coseteng, Ernesto Herrera, Reps. Rolex Suplico, Francis "Chiz" Escudero, Darlene Antonino, Ronaldo Zamora, Mayors JV Ejercito, Toby Tiangco, among others. Some delegates expressed fears of another rigging in the election as they urged opposition leaders to draw up measures to prevent cheating. Lawyer and opposition counsel Rufus Rodriguez said they would deploy a number of lawyers to all election precincts to ensure that poll watchers would be guided accordingly to protect the ballots. Other potential candidates in the opposition senatorial slate are former Senators Loren Legarda, Tito Sotto, Gringo Honasan, JV Ejercito, former Vice President Teofisto Guingona, Sen. Panfilo Lacson, Reps. Escudero, Alan Peter Cayetano, Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III. The remaining slots would be divided among Liberal Party and Nacionalista members. Binay said they will finalize the opposition line-up on Jan. 15. "Let's wait for the results marami kasi at namimili pa kami some have 51 percent and some kino-consider pa rin namin," Binay said, stressing that one of the requirements they are considering in a candidate is that he should be against the present administration. Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Nene" Q. Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban) yesterday said the Arroyo administration and its allies are harboring false hopes by planning a lost-ditch attempt to revive Charter Change before the mid-term national and local elections. Pimentel said the attempt by pro-administration groups to launch a second attempt to amend the 1987 Constitution through people's initiative is bound to fail like the first one for lack of time and its doubtful constitutional basis. printing Charter change proponents are reportedly set to start a signature capaign for a petition to convert Congress from a bicameral into a unicameral body. They also plan to ask the Commission on Elections to schedule the holding of a national plebiscite on the proposel amendment, preferably to coincide with the May 14 elections for senators, congressmen and local government officials. Pimentel warned Charter change advocates against resorting to some hocus-pocus to short-cut the process by recycling the signatures that they collected for the first people's initiative petition. He said the signatures obtained for the first petition (for the shift to a unicameral parliamentary system) could not be validly used for the second petition (for transforming bicameral Congress into a unicameral assembly) because the two petition deal with entirely different amendment proposals. The lone senator from Mindanao also said it would be preposterous to ask the people in a plebiscite whether they favor the abolition of the Senate and House of Representatives and the creation of a unicameral legislature while they are in the process of exercising their right to vote for candidates for senators and congressmen. Other articles: http://www.120sm.com/Blog/View/?178 http://www.linlangshan.com/Blog/View/?813 浏览(225) | 回复(0)
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