Requiem for recall
DEAD ON arrival.
That was how – from the very start – purported top election lawyer Romulo Macalintal called the petition for the recall of his purported pro bono client, Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio.
Dead on arrival.
That was how – Macalintal so gleefully proclaimed, not without an I-told-you-so sneer – the petition for Panlilio’s recall seemed to have gone at the Commission on Elections, with its decision to defer all petitions for recall due to lack of funds.
Comelec Chair Jose Melo had long been saying the poll body had all but P5 million in its coffers for recall elections. Pampanga’s alone would require a minimum of P24 million. And there are 16 more petitions lodged with them.
Dead on arrival.
Not so much for any infirmity – legal or otherwise – that should have been first diagnosed, but for the sheer unavailability of funds to go about it.
Dead on arrival.
Just like the destitute patient rushed to a hospital, getting no attention from doctors because he had no money for the required deposit. The grieving relatives taking what little comfort from the consoling “kagustuhan na ng Diyos yan (It is God’s will).”
Come to think of it, the recall petition’s “death” at the Comelec has been, indeed, hailed by at least one rabid Panlilio mongrel as the very will of God.
Dead on arrival.
With the demise of recall petitions at its very doorstep, the Comelec has shamelessly reduced itself to the level of government hospitals where the dying is far greater than the healing. Afflicted as they both are with the same insufficiency of funds, and therefore failing to live up to their very mandate, to the very reason for their being.
Dead on arrival.
The Comelec-government hospital analogy takes on the wing of a song. Particularly some lyrics in that golden song of yore, Mona Lisa. In this wise, Victor Wood’s tremulous version, for its tragicomic appropriateness:
“Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep.
They just lie there, and they die there.”
Dead on arrival.
Is the Comelec for real?
Dead on arrival.
Should the Recall-Panlilio advocates now prepare for a funeral?
Pray. Wail.
That was how – from the very start – purported top election lawyer Romulo Macalintal called the petition for the recall of his purported pro bono client, Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio.
Dead on arrival.
That was how – Macalintal so gleefully proclaimed, not without an I-told-you-so sneer – the petition for Panlilio’s recall seemed to have gone at the Commission on Elections, with its decision to defer all petitions for recall due to lack of funds.
Comelec Chair Jose Melo had long been saying the poll body had all but P5 million in its coffers for recall elections. Pampanga’s alone would require a minimum of P24 million. And there are 16 more petitions lodged with them.
Dead on arrival.
Not so much for any infirmity – legal or otherwise – that should have been first diagnosed, but for the sheer unavailability of funds to go about it.
Dead on arrival.
Just like the destitute patient rushed to a hospital, getting no attention from doctors because he had no money for the required deposit. The grieving relatives taking what little comfort from the consoling “kagustuhan na ng Diyos yan (It is God’s will).”
Come to think of it, the recall petition’s “death” at the Comelec has been, indeed, hailed by at least one rabid Panlilio mongrel as the very will of God.
Dead on arrival.
With the demise of recall petitions at its very doorstep, the Comelec has shamelessly reduced itself to the level of government hospitals where the dying is far greater than the healing. Afflicted as they both are with the same insufficiency of funds, and therefore failing to live up to their very mandate, to the very reason for their being.
Dead on arrival.
The Comelec-government hospital analogy takes on the wing of a song. Particularly some lyrics in that golden song of yore, Mona Lisa. In this wise, Victor Wood’s tremulous version, for its tragicomic appropriateness:
“Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep.
They just lie there, and they die there.”
Dead on arrival.
Is the Comelec for real?
Dead on arrival.
Should the Recall-Panlilio advocates now prepare for a funeral?
Pray. Wail.
posted by A.Caesar Z. Lacson at 10:53 AM
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