BY THE COUNSELS FOR THE DEFENSE OF LIBERTIES (CODAL) Posted by Bulatlat.com CODAL condemns the Commission on Election for colluding with Sigaw ng Bayan, a party to a petition before it, to railroad the approval for a people’s initiative by taking the hypocritical position of dismissing the complaint without allowing the Oppositors to question the…
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People’s Initiative under Pretenses
By Michael Goyagoy IBON Features Posted by Bulatlat.com Although Malacañang denies having anything to do with it, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo recently declared her support for charter change through the people’s initiative. In typical fashion, Arroyo likened the people’s initiative to a train. But based on reports citing the less-than-scrupulous ways the signatures were gathered, it…
People’s Initiative Is Palace Initiative – Ex-Comelec Exec
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com “People’s initiative is an idea that comes from the people, it is not an idea imposed on (them),” lawyer Mejol Sadain, who retired from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) last February, said in an interview with Bulatlat. “This thing they now call people’s initiative is actually a Palace initiative.” A…