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‘Candidates’ to Comelec chairs
FILIPINOS CHOOSE the people who will run their government through elections. Yet they do not hold the power to choose who will run the elections. That authority rests on the…
By Rowena F Caronan·February 6, 2015
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Your Honor, Your Horror? A parade of Comelec Chairs
HE WOULD have long left his post at the Commission on Elections by the time Filipinos cast their ballots in the 2016 elections. But chances are some of Sixto S. Brillantes Jr.’s…
By Che De Los Reyes·February 5, 2015
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‘Candidates’ to lead COA?
BEING CHIEF bean counter may not sound that impressive, and the probability of going against countless politicians could be daunting. Yet the job of leading the 9,000 personnel…
By Rowena F Caronan·February 2, 2015
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COA under Grace
SHE IS the first female head of the Commission on Audit, but that will not be the only distinction Maria Gracia Pulido-Tan will be remembered for after her term of office lapses…
By Fernando C Cabigao Jr·February 2, 2015
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Backstory: The COA Chairs
THE PHILIPPINES has had seven chairpersons for the Commission on Audit (COA) since 1986. Yet while they have wound up being named respondents in court cases, most of these…
By Charmaine P Lirio·February 2, 2015
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Who should head COA, Comelec, CSC, CHR?
A SILENT EMERGENCY is unfolding, a portent of a likely crisis of integrity should President Benigno S. Aquino III fail to act swiftly and well: Four Constitutional Commissions with…
By Malou Mangahas·February 2, 2015
