Press Release
December 16, 2009

STATEMENT OF SEN. AQUILINO Q. PIMENTEL, JR.
SC DECISION UNDERMINES NATIONAL INTEREST

The Supreme Court should reconsider its decision in Quinto versus Comelec allowing appointive officials to run for public office without relinquishing their jobs.

The decision opens the floodgates of corruption that can sweep the bureaucracy into irredeemable turmoil.

Can one imagine a Judge or a Justice or a Comelec Official, a DPWH, Customs, BIR, military official running for public office while he or she holds on to an appointive position?

How will that appointive official be expected to deliver without fear or favour the public service that his or her position demands while he or she courts the electorate to vote for him or her?

How will he or she be able to act neutrally or with fairness in relation to the duty that appointive official is expected to discharge?

How will the appointive official now running for public office without forfeiting his or her seat resist the temptation to use the people's funds allocated to his or her office to advance the candidate's partisan political agenda?

Maybe the people should request, if not, demand that the decision of the Supreme Court in Quinto versus Comelec be reconsidered for clearly undermining the national interest.

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