Tarnished Legacy?

Benjamin Abalos, who retires in February 2008, is now in the “legacy” phase of his stint as chairman of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and possibly of his entire career as a government official. He has said that he does not relish the prospects of having a legacy of controversies. But such is the kind of legacy he seems poised to leave – as he carries with him the smear of having overseen two successive fraudulent elections (2004 and 2007) and, recently, the brokering of an overpriced and rigged National Broadband Network (NBN) contract between the government and China’s ZTE Corp.

BY FLON FAURILLO
Bulatlat
Vol. VII, No. 31, September 9-15, 2007