Palace taps Davide as UN Envoy

[lakton]

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may tama ka MAGMA.... :mrgreen: bisan asa dapit na corner ok kaayo si DAVIDE.

[Empress_Of_Drac]

Hmmn...I always know that PGMA will choose him...kudos to PGMA for having such kind of decision...well I always salute her...she's my IDOL...hmmn...I mean Davide's the MAN...hahahahaha...

[Freeza]

these is good news i hope more people like davide will be appointed in government offices like in customs, bir finace and other government revenue generating offices. we need non -corrupt people in these positions

[mosimos]

Gamitan!

[magma]

Gamitan!

See u have nothing more to say against Mr. Davide kon dili "gamitan", "payback for his loyalty"...blah,blah...Is he not competent for the new position?

[mosimos]

In 1995, a vacancy occurred in the Supreme Court (SC), and President Ramos turned to Hilario Davide Jr. to fill it. When he succeeded Mr. Ramos, one of Joseph Estrada’s first major tasks was to find a replacement for the retiring Chief Justice of the SC, Andres Narvasa. Though President Estrada knew that Justice Davide was not known to be one of his admirers, he chose the Cebuano for the top position in the Philippine judiciary.

Even with his limited philosophical sophistication, Mr. Estrada cannot have expected that the new Chief Justice’s decision-making would be heavily influenced by his debt-of-gratitude considerations, but he is bound to not have been prepared for what Chief Justice Davide would do to him in the latter part of 2000.

In accordance with the dictates of the Constitution, the Chief Justice had to preside over the President’s impeachment trial in the Senate. At first the proceedings went according to the book, but when the House of Representatives’ prosecutors decided to walk out of the trial and take their weak case to the streets, Chief Justice Davide applied absolutely no sanctions to them. The trial did not resume, and the walkout eventually ended in the so-called Edsa II. There is widespread speculation, not only among the members of the pro-Estrada groups, that even at the impeachment-trial stage, Chief Justice Davide was already in on the conspiracy to force Joseph Estrada out of Malacañang.

By his own admission, Hilario Davide Jr. decided, on the fateful night of Jan. 19-20, 2001 to bring about the installation of Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Malacañang by all means. In an account of the events of those days, the Chief Justice has written about accidentally turning his Bible to the page that spoke of “restoring Zion.” He thereupon took it upon himself to convince the other members of the high court to agree to consider Joseph Estrada as having “constructively resigned” and to attend Mrs. Arroyo’s oath-taking at the Edsa shrine at noon on Jan. 20.

Poor Joseph Estrada. He never saw his unceremonious removal coming.

With his behavior in the impeachment trial and the ouster of the President elected with the largest vote in presidential-election history, I ceased to be an admirer of Hilario Davide Jr.

My dislike of the Cebuano jurist became more intense with his handling of the Judiciary Development Fund, which, in line with a Marcos decree, is handled exclusively by the Chief Justice. When some accountability-minded members of the House of Representatives brought the articles of impeachment against him, Hilario Davide Jr. called on Gloria Arroyo to ensure that the articles of impeachment didn’t get anywhere. The other members of the high court threw their support behind their embattled chief.

So now Gloria Arroyo, in a returning-the-favor act, has decided to send Hilario Davide Jr., now a private citizen, to head the Permanent Mission of the Philippines to the United Nations. Objections to the appointment have been presented to the Commission on Appointments.

The heads of the other countries’ Permanent Missions to the UN have abundant information at their disposal about their counterparts from other countries. They are well-informed people. They know (1) that Gloria Arroyo is thought by the majority of Filipinos to have stolen the 2004 elections and (2) that the new head of the Philippine government mission was largely responsible for ousting the democratically elected Joseph Estrada and installing Mrs. Arroyo in his place.

What can Hilario Davide Jr. possibly tell the United Nations that will give him the respect and confidence of the representatives of that august body’s members?

(My e-mail address is rudy_v_romero@yahoo.com)

[arjay_cutie]

davide harvests his own fruits...... just right for him :mrgreen: