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Thursday, September 07, 2006
Fuentes to resign as Confed chair group supports Chacha
SOUTH Cotabato Governor Daisy Avance-Fuentes vowed to give up her post as chair of the Confederation of Governors, City Mayors and Municipal Mayors League Presidents of Mindanao (Confed) should the group endorses the proposed amendment the 1987 Constitution through the controversial people's initiative approach.
Fuentes, who was elected as new Confed chair last August 3, said Confed members allied with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo are bent on passing a resolution declaring its full support to the proposed Charter changes.
Fuentes said the pending resolution is set for approval by members of Confed, which is composed mostly of stalwarts from the administration party Lakas-Christian and Muslim Democrats, on its next meeting in Cagayan de Oro City.
Fuentes said Confed, the biggest gathering of top local chief executives in the island, was supposed to meet on Sept. 15 but host Mayor Vicente Emano asked to reset the meeting in October.
"The resolution would be certainly be passed, there no question about that. But the thing is, I cannot support it and I don't intend to compromise my stand," said Fuentes, a member of the opposition Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC).
"I don't think shifting to a parliamentary system will make our government and economy strong or even stable. These will not happen unless we have a government that is committed to eradicate corruption and has political maturity," she said. (Allen V. Estabillo)
(September 4, 2006 issue)
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