Sunday, January 01, 2006

Should we swap the 2007 elections for Arroyo's Cha cha referendum?

Kasi parang ganyan ang lumalabas eh, kapag natuloy ang kagustuhan ng Arroyo admin. Sabi nila magastos raw ang 2007 Elections, but that's only because the administration is also gearing up for an expensive Charter change campaign and it's referendum NEXT YEAR. Kaya nga tinaasan ang buwis natin para sa "great debate" na yan eh. At nire-ready na ng admin ang pork barrel sa budget (Kilos Asenso, Kalayaan Barangay, and the so-called "Healing the Wounds of Edsa" fund) para diyan.

But the last thing this country needs right now is a Charter change since I believe it is unnecessary and doesn't directly address the GLORIAGATE crisis plaguing us. Hindi naman ang constitution natin ang dahilan kung bakit nagkaroon ng GLORIAGATE cheating scandal eh. Yung Malacanang occupant mismo at ang kanyang COMELEC ang dapat sisihin at sibakin. To solve the problem, remove the fake president and her COMELEC. Using CHA CHA is just overkill and very expensive to us Filipinos.

It's like a person trying to burn down his house just to kill the cockroaches. Simply overkill.

Anyway, if we are to undertake something as huge as Cha cha, better make sure of the following:

1) We have credible leadership and people to make the changes.

2) We have enough money for it. And a No-el in 2007 just so that we can have enough money for the Cha cha referendum is unacceptable. Kung walang tayong pera, then scrap Cha cha. It's that simple.

3) There's actually an urgent need for it, instead of cha cha only being used as a diversion for GLORIAGATE. In fact, it's pretty damn obvious that cha cha will not solve our Gloriagate problem. It will OTOH strengthen GMA and her allies in congress.

Related: Additional bogus reasons to scrap the 2007 elections from Con Com chief Abueva:

According to Arroyo's CON COM, we should scrap the 2007 elections na lang raw kasi "we don't have the necessary institutions" to conduct clean elections:

In a full-page newspaper ad, the Con-com headed by Dr. Jose Abueva admits that they “have proposed no elections in 2007” because “the necessary institutions for credible elections might not be in place by then.”

This is the loudest admission that the current Comelec cannot be trusted anymore to hold credible elections. Earlier, Sen. Joker Arroyo said the same thing. Chairman Benjamin Abalos, isn’t it time for you to throw in the towel, get your substantial pension and enjoy playing golf at Wack Wack year round?

If we can't hold any credible elections in 2007 because the Arroyo's COMELEC is corrupt and partisan, THEN HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU EXPECT THIS ADMINISTRATION AND IT'S COMELEC TO CONDUCT A CREDIBLE REFERENDUM ON CHARTER CHANGE????

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