Poll body appointee gets boost from senate head

     

Senate President Franklin M. Drilon vouched for the integrity and competence of newly appointed Comelec commissioner Rowena Guanzon amid questions raised by the opposition.

 "I know Commissioner Guanzon. She and I used to be colleagues at ACCRA Law. She is competent and highly qualified," Drilon said.

"She has her own mind, and I am confident that will be independent as a Comelec commissioner. I don’t think she will blindly follow what other people say," he added.

The political opposition claimed that the Liberal Party may be behind the appointment of Guanzon to the sensitive post so she could favor the candidacy of the presumptive LP presidential candidate, Interior Secretary Mar Roxas.

Guanzon, the opposition said, is close to the Liberal Party, and Drilon's name had been mentioned as among those who could have pushed her appointment.       "What our political adversaries are saying is not unexpected. If they have nothing to say, then they cannot be called the opposition. But I have complete trust in the character of Commissioner Guanzon," Drilon explained.

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