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I laud the SC for restraining the appointments of OICs in ARMM

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  • Office of the Minority Leader Edcel C. Lagman
  • 931-5576 / 932-5412
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  • 13 September 2011

  

            As the principal petitioner assailing the constitutionality of the cancellation of the ARMM elections and the grant of authority to the President to appoint Officers-in-Charge under the challenged Republic Act No. 10153, I laud the Supreme Court for restraining the appointments of OICs pending final adjudication of the petition.

 

            The Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) obligates the respondents, representing the President, to observe “judicial courtesy” and not to pre-empt the final decision of the Supreme Court by extending precipitate appointments to OICs.

 

            Under existing statutes on ARMM, the prohibition on the appointments of OICs will not result to a hiatus in public service because the elected incumbents will hold-over pending the election and qualification of their successors.