Lambino for Comelec chair?

Posted on May 1, 2006 - Filed Under , , , |

CAN Raul Lambino, he who is taking on all-comers in the name of Cha-Cha and People's Initiative, now blame people, both from the administration and opposition fences, if they see him taking the place of Comelec chair Benjamin Abalos sooner or later?

Other than the fact that Lambino has emerged a virtual wall of strength in the defense of P.I. and by extension, the Cha-Cha train, tirelessly travelling the entire length and breadth of the country to keep those signatures a-pouring, there may yet be nothing to suggest Lambino can be, or is being, considered as replacement for the controversial Abalos. No, at least not yet.

The current Comelec chair and his commissioners may have fixed terms under the constitution but as even the most elementary observer of current events will tell you anything is possible under a determined administration. With the Davide recommendations having already laid the premise for a Comelec makeover, among other activist suggestions, a shakeup even at the constitutional body that is the Comelec, is "imaginable." Take your cue from the mere fact  that a virtual rewrite of the charter is in the offing — and that Comelec may not be beyond the pall of amendments, especially insofar as its current composition is concerned, under a revised fundamental law.

Besides, if that ever comes to pass, imagine the avalanche of plus points it will create for the Arroyo administration,given the current  negative public pulse for the poll body.

Davide himself may be a shoo-in for the Comelec post, if it is vacated at all, but for delicadeza, the former Supreme Court chief justice may just chuck it all. And a horizon scan for probable replacements in a post-Abalos era may just have Raul Lambino's name shining brighter than all others, going by the present highly creditable yeoman's job he's doing at Sigaw ng Bayan. It also does help that he's acceptable in the GMA camp as well as in Speaker JDV's coral.

For that matter, any guy who can gather millions of signatures in just a span of three weeks for a cause he espouses must really have what it takes to be an elections commission chairman in these merry islands of the Pacific.

You say we're conjecturing? Maybe. All depends on how the chips fall in the next couple of months. Then (and only then) can you say this is a whole lot of bull.   

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