Double Headers Election this May – Bataoil

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

LINGAYEN – Expect a double - header village elections come May 21 this year, a congressman said.

Pangasinan Second District Represetative Leopoldo Bataoil cited that the candidates and the electorates would be seeing a barangay election and a plebiscite simultaneously to be held middle of this year.

AWARDING - Pangasinan Police Provincial Office marks its 27th PNP Foundation Day Celebration and Awarding Ceremony this Monday with Pangasinan 2nd District Congressman Leopoldo Bataoil  (3rd from left) graces the occasion as the guest of honor and speaker. The affair coincides with the ground breaking ceremony of the multi - purpose hall that will be constructed inside the provincial headquarter in Lingayen, Pangasinan. The solon commends the efforts of policemen and gives recognition to those who are in the field, sacrificing their lives for the people. Bataoil also donated computer units to the eight municipal police stations in the 2nd Congressional District.

“The barangay election maybe doubled with a plebiscite. So, in the Senate there is also an effort for the senators to separately conduct their own assembly,” Bataoil cited on the deliberations and hearings being done by the Upper House for the revision of the 1987 Constitution.

The solon said that the members of the House of Representatives are busily conducting their own version of the hearing for the charter change before it can be submitted to the Bicameral Conference Committee (BCC) of the 17^th Congress to harmonize with the version of the House of Senate.

“These are the things that are hopefully will be harmonized in due time. May independence ang bawat departamento. The Lower House composed 293 congressmen all over the country, district congressmen, and party list”.

When asked that the Lower House was expeditious when it passed 41 bills that became laws out of the 2,100 bills in the past 145 days while the Upper House procrastinated thus was called by Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez as “Mabagal na Kapulungan (Slow House), Bataoil differed that the congressmen were submissive to the impulses, if any, of the Speaker.

“It goes through the process. Hindi naman iyong porke sinabi na ganoon sinabi mo priority bills ay we ram to everyone else. It goes through the legislation and due process of lawmaking. It goes to the committees and the committee submits it to the appropriate Committees on Rules and Appropriations and funding and through first reading, second reading, and third reading. And the Senate goes to the same process. And through the bicameral committee will harmonize whatever the discrepancy is there then becomes a law upon the approval of the president,” he stressed.