Drilon warns of the implications of the "No-el" scenario

In a "non-elective" (No-El) scenario, President Rodrigo Duterte will be the only one to appoint substitutes for senators, congressmen and local executives whose terms of office will expired by June. 30, 2019, according to Franklin Drilon, leader of the Senate minority

"We must be careful," he warned on Saturday, noting that expiring officials would not be allowed to keep their posts. "The elected may be replaced by the President after the expiry of the terms of June 30, because all members of Congress, senators, mayors, governors, all whose mandate will expire on June 30, s & 39; There is no election, all "As they say, the cat is out of the bag, and that [Charter change] is pushed for" no-el "because 84 [incumbent]] members of the Congress can no longer operate because of the term limit, so the purp Drilon told dwiz radio

Last week, President Pantaleon Alvarez hovered the possibility of postponing mid-term elections to 2019 to give Congress time to respond to proposals for a new president. However, the Senate Speaker, Vicente Sotto III, argued that Congress could not postpone the election if the goal was to extend the term of office of its members to amend the Constitution

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"The date of the election may be changed by law, as indicated in Section 8, Article VI of the 1987 Constitution. However, if the date of modification is fixed beyond mandated by law, members of Congress whose terms end at noon on June 30 can not have the capacity to carry, "he said. in which the Congress postponed an election, prompting the presiding officer to nominate someone to be responsible for the vacancy.

"It happened in the [Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao or] ARMM.The elections of the ARMM were postponed and the governor [Mujiv] Hataman was appointed," Drilon recalled.

Then President Benigno Aquino III appointed the Hataman officer in charge of the ARMM in 2011 after the elections that were to take place in August 2011, was postponed to coincide with the May 2013 elections. [19659003] In a decision of October 2011, the Supreme Court upheld the law passed by the Congress defeating the elections of the ARMM and authorizing the president to appoint election commissioners.

Hataman will later win a full term as governor of the ARMM in the May 2013 general election.

"Elections can not be postponed without a law, that's why they go ask for a law postponing the elections. "Drilon says.

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