Thursday, July 03, 2008 Leonida, Tagle named poll commissioners
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo appointed former court judges Leonardo Leonida and Lucenito Tagle as new commissioners of the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
Leonida recently retired as a Malabon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge, and was an RTC judge of Laguna prior to that.
Tagle, who had just retired as a justice of the Court of Appeals, also served as an RTC executive judge of Imus, Cavite.
The nomination of Leondia and Tagle would be submitted to the Commission on Appointments (CA) together with interim appointment of former Iligan RTC judge Moslemen Macarambon who was bypassed by the CA.
The appointment of the two leaves the vacancy in the Comelec to one after the late commissioner Romeo Brawner died last month after suffering from heart attack.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said aside from the Comelec appointments, the President also named retired Air Force General Ruben Ciron as director general of the Aviation Authority of the Philippines.
Arroyo likewise appointed actress Amalia Amador Muhlach, more popularly known as Amalaia Fuentes, as an acting member of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board.
Also appointed were Danilo Valero as executive director of the Road Board Secretariat; Romeo Momo as undersecretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways; Josephine Dominguez as undersecretary for Indigenous Peoples of the Office of External Affairs; Angelo Ang Palaña as commissioner of the National Labor Relations Commission; and Edagrdo Pamintuan as chairman and chief executive officer of the North Luzon Railways Corporation. (JMR/Sunnex)
