Cong. Florencio T. Miraflores (Liberal Party, Aklan) said he favors the May 2007 local elections instead of postponing it to give way to the proposed Charter Change through constituent assembly.
Miraflores stressed the proposal to postpone the election is unconstitutional as the local elections to be held next year is mandated by law.
"The constituent assembly proposal is being discussed in the Congress whether there is a need to postpone the elections to November from May after revising the 1987 Constitution," he clarified in a radio interview.
Malacanang earlier supported the ‘no-election’ of senators and local officials in 2007 in preparation for amending the Constitution, but some congressmen said the election would push through as provided for under the Constitution.
Miraflores, a three-termer Aklan governor before he was elected in 2004 for Congress, said "let the Congress thresh out the provisions in the 1987 Constitution before it fast tracked the adoption of a parliamentary system and holds the elections in May 2007."
(Congressman Miraflores, however, did not stay whether he voted or did not vote for the deletion of the Article 105 of the House Rules. The proposal to delete Article 105 was approved by the House of Representatives with a 161 – 25 votes during the marathon session on December 8. Is Congressman Miraflores among the 25 who voted against the deletion?) /MPmailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
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