The Standard - 2016 June 28 - Tuesday

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VOL. XXX NO. 136 3 Sections 32 Pages P18 TUESDAY : JUNE 28, 2016 www.thestandard.com.ph editorial@thestandard.com.ph

Guns to go quiet by August

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PROVE YOURSELF, POLL CHIEF TOLD By Sara Susanne D. Fabunan

THREE elections commissioners said Monday they will no longer participate in operational preparations for the October barangay elections, after criticizing Commission on Elections Chairman Andres Bautista for his “ failure of leadership.” “We don’t want to take part in the operational aspect of the barangay elections anymore,” said

Commissioner Rowena Guanzon, one of six commissioners who issued a memo to Bautista last week

that raised 15 issues against him. Guanzon said they wanted to give Bautista free rein in running the October elections and allow him to prove his capabilities. “It’s about time Chairman Bautista runs an election,” she said. She and two other commissioners—Christian Robert Lim and Luie Guia—agreed to sit out the operational aspects of the upcoming polls, and join only the administrative activities as part of the en banc.

“Of course we will participate in the en banc if there are any actions needed,” Guanzon said. Bautista said he would have to verify the decision of the three commissioners at Tuesday’s en banc meeting. “If that is really their position, we will see. But that is unfortunate,” Bautista said. Bautista on Monday said he would not resign despite the scathing criticism from his colleagues

in the en banc. He said he could find no reason to quit after the successful conduct of the national and local elections in May. “I am not thinking of leaving my post... at all because I did not do anything wrong. The past election is a clear proof that the Comelec can hold an orderly, successful, and peaceful election,” said Bautista, who just arrived from a vacation in Japan. Next page

President-elect Rodrigo Duterte delivers a speech before city hall employees in Davao City, three days before taking oath as president. Duterte criticized ‘stupid’ human rights campaigners, as he defended his imminent war on crime and emphasized that the death penalty was for retribution. AFP

Tugade: ‘Kick me out if I fail’

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Rody: PNoy’s straight path was crooked By John Paolo Bencito PRESIDENT-ELECT Rodrigo Duterte tore into outgoing President Benigno Aquino III Monday, saying that rampant corruption in his administration had turned his straight path crooked. “Why is the straight path never straight?” Duterte told his supporters in Davao City, addressing them as mayor

for the last time at a flag ceremony at city hall. “It’s supposed to be straight, right?” Duterte also bristled at Aquino’s suggestions that he had dictatorial tendencies. “Sometimes I can be harsh, but I was never a despot to anybody,” said Duterte, who has been criticized by the United Nations and human rights and religious groups for his plan to revive the death penalty and allegations that he was linked to

summary executions as mayor of Davao. “My government is for the helpless, the hopeless and the defenseless,” Duterte said. “Those are the words of my father. I just borrowed them from him.” He added that corruption was so prevalent during the Aquino administration that officials routinely used government resources to advance their own political Next page interests.


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