Malacanang: Justice chief accepted her fate
JUSTICE Secretary Leila de Lima has moved on and accepted her non-inclusion in the shortlist for the next Chief Justice, a Palace official said Wednesday.
“I think that’s water under the bridge now. I just spoke to Secretary Leila de Lima and she is working, performing her role as secretary of Justice,” presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said, adding the President is more comfortable having De Lima in the Department of Justice (DOJ).
De Lima, a perceived frontrunner to the post vacated by ousted Renato Corona last May 29, was disqualified by the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) last Monday due to her pending disbarment cases.
De said on Tuesday that she was eliminated from the race because some powerful fraternities and personalities wanted her to be excluded.
She also accused the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), Supreme Court and the JBC of banding together to end her quest by sitting on her cases but the Palace declined to comment.
Malacañang called the shortlist as “long shortlist” since eight names were included, namely: Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, Associate Justices Roberto Abad, Arturo Brion, Maria Lourdes Sereno and Teresita Leonardo de-Castro, Solicitor General Francis Jardeleza, former Executive Secretary and San Juan Representative Ronaldo Zamora, and former Ateneo law dean Cesar Villanueva.
President Benigno Aquino III already received the shortlist but his spokespersons were clueless on what will be his next step.
Lacierda likewise dispelled questions whether the President is already contented with the shortlist or he will give it back to the JBC for revision, an action that he never did since assuming office on June 30, 2010.
Aquino’s appointees to the High Court are Justices Sereno, Estela Perlas-Bernabe, and Bienvenido Reyes.
The JBC had said that it will not revise the list if the President dislikes it.
There were two incidents during the time of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo when she returned the JBC shortlist for a Supreme Court vacancy.
Arroyo returned the list when Reynato Puno was the Chief Justice and ex-officio chairman of the JBC apparently because she did not like the names in the shortlist. Puno, however, returned the list with the same names on it.
She did the same when the JBC was chaired by then Supreme Court Justice Hilario Davide as she wanted to accommodate someone for the vacancy in the High Tribunal. Arroyo’s attempt also failed as Davide junked her request.
President Aquino has until August 27 to make a decision on who will head the judiciary.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2012/08/15/malacanang-justice-chief-accepted-her-fate-237624
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