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COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS Chairman Saidamen Balt Pangarungan cast his vote during local absentee voting held inside the Comelec office in Intramuros, Manila, April 27. — PHILIPPINE STAR/ KRIZ JOHN ROSALESt is clear that the bypassing of the confirmations of interim Commission on Elections Chairman Saidamen Balt Pangarungan and Comelec Commissioner George Garcia by the Commission on Appointments were politically motivated.

idence. On the surface, one can say, there is nothing wrong with that, for as long as the power to appoint is used judiciously. Stakeholders have a fair idea of what Comelec needs to do to gain the trust of the people. Civil society groups know what expertise the poll body needs for it to address shortcomings that compromise transparency and being a truly rule-based agency.rmation of Pangarungan and Garcia, further stresses the point that Marcos Jr.

The formation of Marcos Jr.’s Cabinet, particularly with respect to the economic team, could also be said to follow the same path as Marcos Sr. Marcos Sr. appointed technocrat-academicians-corporate executives like Cesar Virata, Jr., Placido Mapa, Gerry Sicat, Jaime Laya, Vicente Paterno, Rafael Salas, and Alejandro Melchor, to name a few.

What made naming his economic team more urgent was that a congressional proclamation of his victory was imminent and to be proclaimed without names and faces of the economic team would further aggravate the uncertainty.

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