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                    [Title] => Three Comelec vacancies to be filled up in coming months
                    [Summary] => President Arroyo will be appointing three more officials of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the coming months and Malacañang is allaying fears it will be having more control over the poll body.


Commissioners Rufino Javier and Mehol Sadain are expected to retire after completing their seven-year terms while Commissioner Manuel Barcelona was no longer re-appointed after being bypassed by the Commission on Appointments a number of times.


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                    [Title] => GMA reappoints 2 more officials bypassed by CA
                    [Summary] => President Arroyo has reappointed two officials of two other constitutional bodies, whom Congress had bypassed before it adjourned last month. 


They are Commissioner Reynaldo Villar of the Commission on Audit and Commissioner Cesar Buenaflor of the Civil Service Commission.


Villar takes over from Commissioner Raul Flores, while Buenaflor replaces Commissioner Jose Erestain Jr.


Mrs. Arroyo issued the reappointments of Villar and Buenaflor on June 30 when she was sworn into office for a fresh six-year mandate.


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                    [Title] => Bypassed Comelec commissioners now ‘jobless’
                    [Summary] => Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioners Virgilio Garcillano and Manuel Barcelona will be left jobless after June 30 since their appointments have been effectively bypassed after Congress adjourned sine die last Friday, Senate President Franklin Drilon said yesterday.


Drilon, chairman of the 25-member bicameral Commission on Appointments (CA), told The STAR that President Arroyo cannot reappoint or issue a new ad interim appointments to the two commissioners since she is bound by the appointment ban until the end of her term at noon of June 30.


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                    [Title] => Palace insists appointment of 2 Comelec officials legal
                    [Summary] => Malacañang insisted yesterday on the legality of President Arroyo’s appointments of Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioners Virgilio Garcillano and Manuel Barcelona, which had been questioned in a case filed before the Supreme Court (SC).


"In our view, no law was violated in the appointment of the two Comelec commissioners," Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye said.


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                    [Title] => Justify Comelec postings, Palace ordered
                    [Summary] => The Supreme Court (SC) ordered Malacañang and two newly appointed Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioners to answer within 10 days a petition seeking the nullification of their appointment to the poll body.


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                    [AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr.
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                    [Title] => Palace welcomes suit vs 2 Comelec officials
                    [Summary] => Malacañang welcomed yesterday the filing of a petition before the Supreme Court questioning the appointment by President Arroyo of Commissioners Virgilio Garcillano and Manuel Barcelona Jr. to the Commission on Elections (Comelec).


Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye said the filing of the petitions before the high tribunal Tuesday would give Malacañang the opportunity to put the issue to rest.


"The President acted within the law in the appointment of the two Comelec commissioners," Bunye said.


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                    [Title] => Disqualify 2 new Comelec execs, SC asked
                    [Summary] => Two lawyers asked the Supreme Court yesterday to nullify President Arroyo’s appointment of two controversial commissioners to the Commission on Elections (Comelec), saying it was unconstitutional and made obviously for partisan purposes.


Petitioners Agripino Baybay III and Paulino Ungos III sought a temporary restraining order to stop Comelec Commissioners Virgilio Garcillano and Manuel Barcelona Jr. from assuming their duties and functions at the poll body.


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                    [Title] => Is FPJ too scared to ‘debate’ unless protected by cheering fans who’ll  boo his rivals?
                    [Summary] => You can win the applause and cheers of the mob, but you cannot run a country – and, for that matter, feed the masa who’re your fervent admirers – on macho posturing, wisecracks, and one-liners.


Sayang. If our movie idol, Fernando Poe Jr. (alias Ronnie), who started out like a house on fire, doesn’t stop playing to the peanut gallery, and basing his campaign language on a rehash of the scripts of his old movies, he’ll fizzle out before the end of the campaign.


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GARCILLANO AND BARCELONA

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Commissioners Rufino Javier and Mehol Sadain are expected to retire after completing their seven-year terms while Commissioner Manuel Barcelona was no longer re-appointed after being bypassed by the Commission on Appointments a number of times.


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They are Commissioner Reynaldo Villar of the Commission on Audit and Commissioner Cesar Buenaflor of the Civil Service Commission.


Villar takes over from Commissioner Raul Flores, while Buenaflor replaces Commissioner Jose Erestain Jr.


Mrs. Arroyo issued the reappointments of Villar and Buenaflor on June 30 when she was sworn into office for a fresh six-year mandate.


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Drilon, chairman of the 25-member bicameral Commission on Appointments (CA), told The STAR that President Arroyo cannot reappoint or issue a new ad interim appointments to the two commissioners since she is bound by the appointment ban until the end of her term at noon of June 30.


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"In our view, no law was violated in the appointment of the two Comelec commissioners," Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye said.


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Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye said the filing of the petitions before the high tribunal Tuesday would give Malacañang the opportunity to put the issue to rest.


"The President acted within the law in the appointment of the two Comelec commissioners," Bunye said.


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Petitioners Agripino Baybay III and Paulino Ungos III sought a temporary restraining order to stop Comelec Commissioners Virgilio Garcillano and Manuel Barcelona Jr. from assuming their duties and functions at the poll body.


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Sayang. If our movie idol, Fernando Poe Jr. (alias Ronnie), who started out like a house on fire, doesn’t stop playing to the peanut gallery, and basing his campaign language on a rehash of the scripts of his old movies, he’ll fizzle out before the end of the campaign.


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