DAVIDE as Presidential Adviser on Electoral Reform

[samamar21]

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good luck
justice davide!

[mosimos]

Ingon siya pahuway na siya? Dpat he shoud stay away in the limelight na.

[FK]

I feel the same way about Chief Justice Davide’s acceptance of his new role as presidential adviser. It breaks my heart. Of the many non-institutional offices invented by past administrations, that of the presidential adviser is the most dubious. At best, it is a usurpation of existing institutional functions. At worst, it serves as a mechanism for political payback, a half-way station for favored individuals on their way to better destinations. Davide has taken on a job worth doing but impossible to do while Ms Arroyo is president. Can something be more difficult to imagine than electoral reforms under a President who has single-handedly wrecked what remains of the Commission on Elections? He must know that Ms Arroyo wants him not so much for what he can do, but for what he represents in the minds of those who admire him.

an opinion from Randy David re: Davide's acceptance on the position.

[estor_boot]

IF THE PRESIDENT REALLY WANTED TO REFORM election practice in the Philippines, she could have done better than to appoint the recently retired Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. as presidential adviser for election reform. She could have appointed the redoubtable Virgilio Garcillano.

Who better to fix a leak, after all, than a plumber? Davide is only a statesman. Garcillano is acknowledged by many (including tacitly by the President herself, who named him election commissioner before she ran for the presidency) as a master plumber, someone who not only can plug a hole or spring a leak, but even knows where the pipes are buried.

Of course, Garcillano has gone on record (through his testimony before Congress) as saying that the country’s election system is in fact leak-proof. He has insisted that the election fraud President Macapagal-Arroyo is accused of committing or commissioning is almost impossible to do, much less pull off.

inq7 editorial.. http://news.inq7.net/opinion/index.p...d=64515&col=84

this article has a point. the best man who knows to fix COMELEC is the one who destroy it. COMELEC has become synonymous to cheating and scandal. im afraid the former chief justice will be eaten to this kind of system.

[FK]

this article has a point. the best man who knows to fix COMELEC is the one who destroy it. COMELEC has become synonymous to cheating and scandal. im afraid the former chief justice will be eaten to this kind of system.

but that article also pointed out that Garci said that the system is leak-proof, so how can he solve the problem, when he himself does not admit that there's a problem?

For the record, we have no doubt that Davide, once the Inquirer’s Filipino of the Year, has the moral stature, the legal acumen and the executive experience the reform initiative needs. But above all else, election reform requires political will. As a mere presidential adviser, Davide can exercise none.

That makes him mere political window dressing.

mao ni problema... bisan onsa pagka maau ni Davide kong iya advise would not be beneficial to the administration/comelec, i don't know who GMA would take it... would she just say "NOTED".