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From: Fidel D. Banzon <g_duna@yahoo.com>
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To: Dalmacio Grafil <lsdaily2@yahoo.com>

 Failure to proclaim, a scenario

 It is a sham to have nine years past discussing the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill ending to
nowhere. If the failure to pass the bill is the lack of quorum inside the session hall, then can we
not expect the proclamation of the new president to end nowhere and the president-elect to
remain not proclaimed? Next week will be crucial. Many members of Congress may not attend
the proclamation, and without a quorum as what did happen to the FOI what will you expect?
 This may be an isolated expectation of what may happen, but, we have already experienced
many unexpected occurrences. This may be the first time the Filipino people will have the Senate
President sit as the chief executive until the time the rules or law is promulgated as to who have
the right to proclaim the president-elect and vice-president-elect.
 Will the new set of representative to Congress have the mandate to proclaim the two officials if
the incumbent members fail to proclaim the prexy and vice prexy? If it did occur, then, the legal
minds will again be scrambling, researching, quarrelling with one another. Philippines will then
be in the limelight to be dubbed, the first and only country to have failed proclaiming the
winning candidate in the presidency and the vice.
 This country has many first in politics. We have proclaimed a second place in election, in fact
was able to sit in Congress for half of the three-year term. We have proclaimed a substitute to a
non-candidate in the last election, that’s first. We have a watchdog in the recent special election
caught vote buying. We have candidates in the recent election who are advocators of the slogan
“Be honest, even others are not honest” but end up buying votes and distributing rice allegedly
donated by an association.
 We had the first automated machine being attacked for cheating; some called it automated “dag-
dag, bawas”. The automated machine is in the era that we call the computer “garbage in, garbage
out”. So, the computer geniuses claimed the program in the flash card was already written for the
winning candidates. That is the reason Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay is suspected to have
the shaving of the votes in Maguindanao because his presidential candidate Joseph Estrada
gathered votes way below from what he got.
 If such suspicion is true how come brothers running different positions did not both win? If one
brother wins and there was really some sort of pre-programming in the automated machine, why
not both of them won?
 That rumor of some runners of the Comelec commissioners going around peddling they can
make a candidate win in exchange of some millions of pesos is a modus operandi of conmen.
Say, if I am a person who really can do cheating in the elections, I prefer to be the candidate
myself and be the president of the Philippines. What I only need to do is does the cheating,
preprogrammed the machines.
 There is no need to shout “open sesame!” That is if it is not a modus operandi to swindle those
unscrupulous minds. Before the election, there were candidates who had aired their concern the
machine is not reliable and could be programmed to cheat. So, after election, when they did not
win, they keep on shouting “I’m cheated!”
 It is unbelievable! In a country known in the world to have many professing to be Christians
called indirectly the candidates to be cheaters, will they believe we are followers of Christ. Few
more years, other nationalities will have lesser belief to Filipino being honest, especially they see
some propagators of “Be honest, even others are not” do dishonesty buying votes.
 As I said from time and time again, if a person throw a hat inside the political arena, he should
know how to play dirty game. Indeed, some of them joined and played dirty games in politics.
(Email g_duna@yahoo.com)