Lumakas ba si Belen Matapos Masuspende ang 3 Solon?

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Bakit sa Office of the President nag file ng preventive suspension ang kampo ni Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez kontra sa tatlong City Councilors sa kanilang “disruptive behavior” sa loob ng sesyun hall noong Pebrero 2024.

SUSPENDIDO: Ang tatlong mambatatas sa Dagupan City na binabaan ng Office of the President ng preventive suspension ng 60-araw. Magmula sa kaliwa: Councilors Alipio “Alf” Serafin Fernandez, Red Erfe-Mejia at Victoria Lim-Acosta. 

“Copies of the video that reached social media showed (Councilor Red) Erfe-Mejia trying to wrestle control of the session by snatching microphones away from other officials, then delivering a tirade against others present in the session as well as demanding to lock the room to prevent anyone inside from leaving,” ayon sa isang bahagi ng utos na pinirmahan ni Office of the President’s Deputy Executive Secretary for Legal Affairs Atty. Anna Liza Logan.

Inilagay ng O.P si Mejia at Councilors Alipio “Alf” Serafin Fernandez at Victoria Lim-Acosta sa 60 – araw na suspension na nagsimula noong ika-30 ng Oktubre.

Bakit hindi sa Ombudsman na pinamumunuan ni former Supreme Court Justice Samuel Martires ng administrative case?

Ayon sa mga abogadong ayaw magpasambit ng mga pangalan, ayaw nila sa Ombudsman dahil si Martires ay appointed sa Ombudsman ni dating Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte.

E ano ngayong kung appointed ni Digong si Martires, ano ang kuneksyon ng tatlong Magic 7 councilors na sina Fernandez,  Lim, at Mejia dito sa pag iwas kuno ng mga nagrereklamo sa Ombudsman?

Ang sagot: Malapit si dating Mayor Brian Lim – kaalyansa at kapatid ng mga nasuspende – kay Vice President Sara Duterte. Si Lim ay Manager sa Northern Luzon ng Office of the Vice President. Tatay ni Sara si dating President Duterte.

Meanwhile, abangan ang blog ko kung ano ang epekto sa Magic 7 na naging Minority 4 na lang at ang 5 minority councilors ni Mayor Fernandez na biglang naging majority solon hanggang Enero.

Kaya na ba nila magpasa ng P1.6 billion 2025 appropriation budget na ipinasa ni Mayor Belen sa Sanggunian Panlungsod noong isang buwan? Kaya ba nila e fast tract na mag loan ng bilyon o mahigit pa sa bangko para mailipat na ung bagong munisipyo sa lupain sa Brgy. Pantal na edo- donate nila sa city government?

Possible ba na mangyari ito? Ano ang implikasyon pag mangyari ito sa labang Celia Lim vs Belen sa mayoralty sa Mayo 2025?

Abangan ang mahabang blog ko o podcast dito.

Pag-uusapan natin kung ano ang papel ng simple majority at qualified majority ayon sa batas at sa Korte Suprema sa equation sa Sanggunian kung saan magbabangaan ang lima kontra apat.

Magbabangaan ba?

E paano kung di papasok ang apat ng Magic 7 kada sesyun, kaya ba nila esabotahe ang mga legislative plan ng mga kalaban?

Abangan!

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Whither Democrat?

Newly elected U.S President Donald Trump says Republicans even dominated the Senate. With the House of Representatives under his party, too, almost all the president's political and economic programs could be feasible.

Ukraine billion dollars military aid from the U.S versus Russia surely stop.

Would Israel bomb now the nuclear facility of Iran that Trump is already elected? Trump ordered the assassination of an Iranian general when he was travelling to the airport in Iraq.

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Quad Committee congressmen like Stephen Paduano browbeats former Duterte officials and mediamen Paul Gutierrez and Benny Antiporda after they have been fingered by narcotics peddling accused detainee Jimmy Guban and retired Colonel Ed Acierda for protecting narco importers like Polong Duterte, Mans Carpio, and others.

Paduano even chided and shouted at Benny for the narration he got from Acierto that the latter never said.

Damn! Relish this live congressional hearing.

I met over bottle of beers Antiporda when he was still a president of the National Press Club when he visited the huge numbers of media practitioners in Pangasinan. Some of the practitioners are voters until now for the officers of the NPC.

What made the saga of Guban and Acierto gruesome? Three of of their colleagues were murdered during the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte because they were accused to abet drugs and as a potential witness against Polong and his brother in law Mans and others.