- Office of Minority Leader Edcel C. Lagman
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- 23 February 2011
The majority in the House is again dancing to the baton of Malacañang.
This time the tempo coming from the President is for the postponement of the ARRM elections which the Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms and the Committee on Muslim Affairs have endorsed.
The Aquino administration has taken contradictory positions on the holding of elections.
With respect to the barangay elections where more than two dozen bill and resolutions called for its postponement as being expensive and too proximate to the divisive national elections, Malacañang insisted against postponement to sustain the momentum of Aquino’s victory.
Now taking an opposite posture, Malacañang wants the cancellation of the ARMM elections because it appears it has no viable candidates yet and allow the President to appoint officers-in-charge.