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Monday, September 11, 2006
Seares: No-el, noel
By Pachico A. Seares
News Sense
NO-EL is certainly not noel.
One rejoices over noel. A carol heralding the coming of Christmas always brings some cheer.
Who rejoices over no-el or no election? No-el eliminates vent for anger, or pleasure, with those who govern.
Michael Defensor last Friday urged some 2,000 councilors gathered in Cebu to support the move to campaign for charter change and do away with the election (in that order, not Defensor’s sequence).
People suspect that cha-cha means no-el but this is the first time someone who is a whisper away from President Arroyo is publicly saying it.
Michael is no ordinary Mickey. He’s the President’s chief of staff who may be clueless as to what’s cooking in Palace kitchens but certainly sees what mischief is brewing behind presidential doors.
Seduction
Now, whom is Mike seducing with the option of staying in power without winning it in a bruising fight?
Three-term councilors no less, officials barred from running for the same post in 2007.
What tempts more lustily than being told they are good officials whom we must not do without “for the good of country and people”?
More than crap, it insults thousands of other citizens who can be good councilors too.
Palace will push no-el though few will sing noel to it.
Hosannahs will come only from those who will profit, people like last-term councilors and a President struggling against extinction.
For Bisaya stories from Cebu. Click here. (September 11, 2006 issue)
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