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Monday, February 06, 2006
Synchronize polls in 2007: mayors
By Maricar Aranas
CITY mayors across the country agreed that a national election must be held as scheduled in 2007 and must be synchronized with the barangay polls, said Dumaguete City Mayor Agustin Perdices.
Perdices said the decision was reached at the meeting of the League of Cities in the Philippines in Iloilo City last week.
He said the country's city mayors favor the holding of national elections next year, but that it must be held together with local polls to save time and money.
Perdices said the city chief executives were leaving it up to the National Government to set the date of the synchronized national and local polls.
The mayor said his counterparts also emphasized that in case elections would be held, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) must first clean its tarnished image and strengthen its credibility.
Retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Hilario Davide is currently the National Adviser on Electoral Reforms.
Perdices believed that the political exercise would be meaningless unless Comelec cleans itself from allegations of maneuvering election results and other polls conspiracy.
(February 5, 2006 issue)
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