COMELEC urged to correct delisting of Migrante Partylist, et.al
“It is not too late for the COMELEC to reverse its earlier ruling through its En banc Resolution 8679 delisting Migrante Partylist and 5 other partylist groups, if they erred they should correct it immediately,” thus said today by John Leonard Monterona, Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator and Migrante Partylist Vice-Chairperson.
Monterona, a Saudi-based OFW, said the burden of proving that Migrante Partylist is not qualified to run on the May 2010 Party-list elections is now on hands of the COMELEC especially that their En banc Resolution 8679 is a complete reversal of its 2004 rulings allowing partylist groups such as Agrifil, Sagip-Kapwa, BISA, Pinoy Overseas Party, and Banat partylist to run in 2004 Party-list elections despite failing to get the 2 percent of total votes cast in 1998 and failed to participate in 2001 elections which Migrante has the same peculiar situation.
“It is sad to note that the new set of COMELEC Commissioners and even its legal department did not do their homework well reading said previous COMELEC ruling about the peculiar situation of Migrante Partylist and other groups which they have delisted,” Monterona added.
Monterona opined that most of the COMELEC commissioners are lawyers who should have knowledge about the election laws and previous ruling of the COMELEC, “Thus, it is highly irregular for the COMELEC as an independent body composed of well-trained lawyers to err on this particular ruling delisting Migrante Partylist and the other 5 partylist groups,” the OFW leader added.
“We believed Migrante’s delisting by the COMELEC is an act of political repression and persecution against the most vocal and most active anti-Arroyo largest OFW groups –the Migrante International which member-organizations and chapters are in full support to Migrante Partylist electoral bid for the May 2010 Partylist elections,” Monterona averred.
Monterona said the Arroyo regime has enough numbers of appointees at the present composition of the COMELEC commissioners. “Even the COMELEC Chairman is an Arroyo appointee that no wonder COMELEC delisted Migrante so that it could not participate in the May 2010 Party-list elections even though there is no legal impediment for it to seek representation in Congress,” Monterona added.
Monterona added COMELEC delisting of Migrante Partylist is not only an attack to progressive OFWs organizations but also denying OFWs the rights to have a genuine representation in Congress.
“OFWs and their families will not allow this to happen without giving COMELEC and the Arroyo regime a good fight; Migrante chapters around the world vow to intensify their protest actions in various forms like simultaneous rallies, petition signing, press conferences, letter and text barrage, until COMELEC will reverse its ruling and allow Migrante Partylist to participate on the May 2010 party-list elections,” Monterona ended. # # #
“It is not too late for the COMELEC to reverse its earlier ruling through its En banc Resolution 8679 delisting Migrante Partylist and 5 other partylist groups, if they erred they should correct it immediately,” thus said today by John Leonard Monterona, Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator and Migrante Partylist Vice-Chairperson.
Monterona, a Saudi-based OFW, said the burden of proving that Migrante Partylist is not qualified to run on the May 2010 Party-list elections is now on hands of the COMELEC especially that their En banc Resolution 8679 is a complete reversal of its 2004 rulings allowing partylist groups such as Agrifil, Sagip-Kapwa, BISA, Pinoy Overseas Party, and Banat partylist to run in 2004 Party-list elections despite failing to get the 2 percent of total votes cast in 1998 and failed to participate in 2001 elections which Migrante has the same peculiar situation.
“It is sad to note that the new set of COMELEC Commissioners and even its legal department did not do their homework well reading said previous COMELEC ruling about the peculiar situation of Migrante Partylist and other groups which they have delisted,” Monterona added.
Monterona opined that most of the COMELEC commissioners are lawyers who should have knowledge about the election laws and previous ruling of the COMELEC, “Thus, it is highly irregular for the COMELEC as an independent body composed of well-trained lawyers to err on this particular ruling delisting Migrante Partylist and the other 5 partylist groups,” the OFW leader added.
“We believed Migrante’s delisting by the COMELEC is an act of political repression and persecution against the most vocal and most active anti-Arroyo largest OFW groups –the Migrante International which member-organizations and chapters are in full support to Migrante Partylist electoral bid for the May 2010 Partylist elections,” Monterona averred.
Monterona said the Arroyo regime has enough numbers of appointees at the present composition of the COMELEC commissioners. “Even the COMELEC Chairman is an Arroyo appointee that no wonder COMELEC delisted Migrante so that it could not participate in the May 2010 Party-list elections even though there is no legal impediment for it to seek representation in Congress,” Monterona added.
Monterona added COMELEC delisting of Migrante Partylist is not only an attack to progressive OFWs organizations but also denying OFWs the rights to have a genuine representation in Congress.
“OFWs and their families will not allow this to happen without giving COMELEC and the Arroyo regime a good fight; Migrante chapters around the world vow to intensify their protest actions in various forms like simultaneous rallies, petition signing, press conferences, letter and text barrage, until COMELEC will reverse its ruling and allow Migrante Partylist to participate on the May 2010 party-list elections,” Monterona ended. # # #
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