My Prerogative 2 (see previous post): To illustrate further the principle: In the same manner, the President can exercise his prerogative right now over the police and find out what’s going on over at the Makati city hall: Check if the CA order is regular and valid, and if so, tell your men to stand down. That’s prerogative. However, he can also choose not to lift a finger and let the regular bureaucracy take its course: Let the DILG Secretary, the DOJ Secretary, and the PNP Chief continue with what seems to be a “standoff” based on media reports. Yun po ang ibig sabihin ng prerogative: pwede nyang utusan nang diretso ang mga pulis pero siya ang may pananagutan.
Senate President Drilon appears at the Senate blue ribbon Committee hearing on the iloilo Convention Center today. This is a podcast on the legal aspect of the appearance, to balance the previous podcast (which was on the legal aspect of VP Binay’s decision not to push thru with the debate).
To be fair, those who could be indicted or criminally charged should it be shown that the Iloilo Convention Center was overpriced, showed up at the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing today.
Anything they say in this proceeding can and will be used against them in any other investigation. yet they showed up and fielded questions…
This podcast plays automatically and is in two languages. ang podcast na ito ay nasa dalawang wika. See how that comes out. adula amin (ilokano) sige nga…
several seconds of music from “kapalaran” (“Fate”) performed by rico J. Puno, photo rightclicked from a government site, all used here non-commercially for academic purposes…
