Panlilio wants to run for president
“MAGBUGO KU mu, ngeni aku nang kakasal da (I am just being the go-between (in the selection of the candidates) but now I am being chosen as the groom (the candidate))."
So said Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio in the newspaper that has long been prime pimping him to national prominence.
In yesterday’s Punto! Panlilio reiterated his “preference” to play the role of convenor. This, he buttressed with the disclosure of his being part of a group of civic and religious leaders initiating primaries to select the “reform candidates” for national positions in the 2010 polls.
“We’re not starting with personalities,” Panlilio said of the proposed primaries.
So, what’s all the buzz about him eyeing the presidency – as bannered in his favorite paper – if not about his personality?
Yeah, right. So, of the hostile reactions to his possible presidential run, Panlilio had this to say: “It’s a repeat of the 2007 elections on a larger scale this time.”
Yeah, right again. Panlilio could well be saying this with the so-called primaries for the “reform candidates” in mind.
A repeat of 2007. When Panlilio was one of the convenors of a group of civil society and religious leaders self-tasked to select the “moral alternative” in an election being contested by the so-called twin scourges of Pampanga – jueteng and the quarry plunderers.
Yeah, right. A visioning of Pampanga freed of evil provided the base from which sprang all considerations of possible candidates with the moral backbone, integrity, and record of accomplishments.
The names that came up the convenors’ list: UP Professor Randy David, former Public Works Secretary and Manila North Tollways Corp. President Ping de Jesus, and Pampanga Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Rene Romero, being the most prominent.
So what happened?
Panlilio, the convenor, became the candidate. Panlilio, the bugo (go-between), turned out to be the groom.
A repeat of 2007. Yeah, right. Only Panlilio will meet the man-profile of the “reform candidate” for president. The odds are heavily tilted to his favor. What with the country’s most influential newspaper as his prime pimp.
“Lunto ya mu rin (The candidate will surface in time).” Again, Panlilio was quoted as saying.
Linto ne. (He has already surfaced.) Panlilio himself said over Radio Veritas: “If people will say that I can do it, if they will say I can make it, yes (I will run.)”
So there. 2007 déjà vu. Panlilio will run for president. That is pre-destined, er, pre-determined.
So Section 3 of Canon 285 of the Code of Canon law (1983) commands: “Clerics are forbidden to assume public offices which entail a participation in the exercise of civil power.”
So Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz carped: “How therefore could a priest be a politician at the same time after no less than two separate, official, and categorical Church prohibitions to be such?”
So the Canon Law doctor and former president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines carped more: “There is no such thing in the Church as a ‘priest on leave’… The insinuation of such a phrase is that the priest can be anybody or anything as long as he pleases, until such time when he finds it convenient, helpful or secure to minister as a priest again.”
And therefore, Cruz said, Panlilio should first secure a dispensation from all his clerical obligations “definitively and permanently.”
“Then he is free to be and to do whatever he pleases. But to be a hyphenated priest-politician is a big anomaly in the Church and a dilemma, if not a scandal, for many lay people.” Capped the prelate in the media.
So what?
Canon Law failed to inhibit Panlilio from pursuing the governorship in 2007. Canon Law will fail to dissuade Panlilio from pursuing his higher political ambitions.
So sanction him now? Panlilio himself said over TV Patrol he would protest and contest any move by the Church to defrock him should he persisted in his political persona.
Yeah, right. For who would vote for Panlilio devoid of the honorific Among?
So said Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio in the newspaper that has long been prime pimping him to national prominence.
In yesterday’s Punto! Panlilio reiterated his “preference” to play the role of convenor. This, he buttressed with the disclosure of his being part of a group of civic and religious leaders initiating primaries to select the “reform candidates” for national positions in the 2010 polls.
“We’re not starting with personalities,” Panlilio said of the proposed primaries.
So, what’s all the buzz about him eyeing the presidency – as bannered in his favorite paper – if not about his personality?
Yeah, right. So, of the hostile reactions to his possible presidential run, Panlilio had this to say: “It’s a repeat of the 2007 elections on a larger scale this time.”
Yeah, right again. Panlilio could well be saying this with the so-called primaries for the “reform candidates” in mind.
A repeat of 2007. When Panlilio was one of the convenors of a group of civil society and religious leaders self-tasked to select the “moral alternative” in an election being contested by the so-called twin scourges of Pampanga – jueteng and the quarry plunderers.
Yeah, right. A visioning of Pampanga freed of evil provided the base from which sprang all considerations of possible candidates with the moral backbone, integrity, and record of accomplishments.
The names that came up the convenors’ list: UP Professor Randy David, former Public Works Secretary and Manila North Tollways Corp. President Ping de Jesus, and Pampanga Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Rene Romero, being the most prominent.
So what happened?
Panlilio, the convenor, became the candidate. Panlilio, the bugo (go-between), turned out to be the groom.
A repeat of 2007. Yeah, right. Only Panlilio will meet the man-profile of the “reform candidate” for president. The odds are heavily tilted to his favor. What with the country’s most influential newspaper as his prime pimp.
“Lunto ya mu rin (The candidate will surface in time).” Again, Panlilio was quoted as saying.
Linto ne. (He has already surfaced.) Panlilio himself said over Radio Veritas: “If people will say that I can do it, if they will say I can make it, yes (I will run.)”
So there. 2007 déjà vu. Panlilio will run for president. That is pre-destined, er, pre-determined.
So Section 3 of Canon 285 of the Code of Canon law (1983) commands: “Clerics are forbidden to assume public offices which entail a participation in the exercise of civil power.”
So Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz carped: “How therefore could a priest be a politician at the same time after no less than two separate, official, and categorical Church prohibitions to be such?”
So the Canon Law doctor and former president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines carped more: “There is no such thing in the Church as a ‘priest on leave’… The insinuation of such a phrase is that the priest can be anybody or anything as long as he pleases, until such time when he finds it convenient, helpful or secure to minister as a priest again.”
And therefore, Cruz said, Panlilio should first secure a dispensation from all his clerical obligations “definitively and permanently.”
“Then he is free to be and to do whatever he pleases. But to be a hyphenated priest-politician is a big anomaly in the Church and a dilemma, if not a scandal, for many lay people.” Capped the prelate in the media.
So what?
Canon Law failed to inhibit Panlilio from pursuing the governorship in 2007. Canon Law will fail to dissuade Panlilio from pursuing his higher political ambitions.
So sanction him now? Panlilio himself said over TV Patrol he would protest and contest any move by the Church to defrock him should he persisted in his political persona.
Yeah, right. For who would vote for Panlilio devoid of the honorific Among?
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