Here is a full context of article from PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER by NORMAN BORDADORA issued date September 30, 2011. Ive read this newspaper just this morning and with the interest of sharing this and post to my own blogsite.Enjoy reading.
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Holdover officials in ARMM
Incumbent officials of the Autonomous
Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will stay in their posts even as their terms
end today, according to Malacañang.
No elections were held in August following
the passage of a law synchronizing the ARMM elections with the national
elections in 2013.
However, the Supreme Court issued a
temporary restraining order on the appointment of officers-in-charge in the
region, one of the provisions of the law that the Aquino administration
intended to use supposedly to initiate reforms in the region.
“Since we cannot appoint new OICs, we are
bound to respect the holdovers in the meantime. There will be holdovers in the
meantime until the Supreme Court decides on the constitutionality of the ARMM
postponement law,” Lacierda said in an afternoon briefing in Malacañang.
Lacierda, in an earlier news briefing, said
having holdover elected officials had been found unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court. He, however, said there should be no vacuum in governance in the
region.
“The most logical thing, is for the incumbent
officials to stay put,” he said.
While having holdover officials is
unconstitutional, “we do not want … a vacuum.”
“It’s something that is important for
governance to continue. There should be somebody on hand to continue public
service,” Lacierda said.
He said the next move on the government’s
reform agenda in the ARMM would hinge on the Supreme Court’s decision on
whether the synchronization of elections law is constitutional.
“They may uphold the process (of appointing
the OICs) … or they will say it us unconstitutional, in which case, either two
options may be decided by the Supreme Court, either by (having) holdover
(officials) or have elections,” Lacierda said.
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