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CHIZ PROPOSES MEASURE TO FILL LEADERSHIP VACUUM
 
Opposition Sen. Chiz Escudero yesterday proposed that Congress convenes five days before June 30 to
select a transition president in case there is a failure of elections in May next year.

“We are going to hold automated elections nationwide for the first time in our electoral history. It is our
responsibility to make sure that our democracy will survive any worst-case scenario,” the 39-year old
lawmaker said.

“The best-made plans, as the saying goes, can go awry. Our present laws do not address a possible failure
of election for the top two offices in the land,” he said.

To prevent any leadership vacuum resulting from a failure to proclaim the president and vice president, the
Senate can elect from among the 12 non-reelectionist senators a president who will assume a transitory
role until the issue is settled, he said.

This will require a joint resolution by the incumbent Congress which will convene only for that purpose for
the last time before June 30, said Escudero who chairs the senate committee on constitutional
amendments and revision of laws.

Under the current succession law, the Senate president is second in line, followed by the Speaker of the
House of Representatives.

“I share the apprehensions of many about our readiness to fully implement the poll automation law at this
time. But since the Supreme Court has spoken, we have to work together to make it work,” said Escudero,
who co-chairs the congressional oversight committee on poll automation.

“Our objective should be clean automation, not automation for automation’s sake, or we will find ourselves
in danger of substituting manual, retail cheating with automated, wholesale cheating,” he said.

Escudero said he will initiate the measure as soon possible in the Senate. A counterpart resolution on the
same issue has also been filed the House of Representatives by Representatives Teodoro Locsin, Jr. and
Edno Joson.
 
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