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Speak out: Margot Vargas Osmeña’s candidacy
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SubscribeErny Elizondo
Former Cebu City councilor
ON Nov. 1, 2009, coincidentally All Saints’ Day in Christendom, newspaper headlines based, on a story emanating from Tomas Osmeña Kingdom, screamed that the mayor’s wife, Margot Vargas Osmeña, is “running for office next year as councilor in Cebu City’s South District.”
Mayor Osmeña made the announcement during a big gathering of barangay captains, who he assured that “Margot will be here to take care” of them.
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As a humble citizen of the south district and the city of Cebu, I want to express my thoughts on the prospect of Margot’s running for city councilor.
They say that anything can happen in politics.
In Cebu City, however, things are made to happen by a political demigod known as Tomas Osmeña.
This political development in the city is pregnant with political implications.
It could imperil Rama’s march to the post of Cebu City mayor, a position once held by his illustrious grandfather, Vicente Rama (he’s also father of the Charter of Cebu City).
No one can read the mind of the mayor on the issue of him fielding his wife as candidate for councilor.
No one knows if he is merely “feeling the pulse of the barangay captains,” after which he would unilaterally announce that Margot is the choice of barangay captains to run for the position of mayor in 2010.
Meanwhile, if Rama does become mayor in 2010, he faces the prospect of being told to slide down to vice mayor again because Margot will be the party’s candidate for mayor in 2013.
Throughout all these is the sad reality in modern politics that political positions have become real property of some families.
The slogan, “Margot will be here to take care of you” also smacks of arrogance and limitless presumptuousness on the part of Mayor Osmeña, who is thinking that no other mortals in Cebu City are capable of serving the Cebuanos in this Queen City of the South except the members of the Osmeña clan.
The last but most important question: What is happening to the city and its intelligent people?