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Angara: Give executive and judiciary time to iron out kinks

MANILA, Dec. 21 (PNA) – Senator Edgardo Angara called on the public to give the young government of President Benigno Aquino III to iron out differences with the judiciary following the ruling of the Supreme Court declaring the Executive Order No. 1 unconstitutional.

”The members of the new administration are still getting used to each other, and I think we can look forward to better coordination among them. Let’s give them time and enough breathing room,” said Angara in an statement on Monday.

Angara said the recent decisions of the judiciary have legal basis, believing that the Aquino administration will eventually gets its bearings in dealing sensitive issues.

“I really don’t believe that there is bad blood between PNoy’s team and the Supreme Court. These recent decisions were based on sound legal arguments—perhaps the executive order was made in haste, and wasn’t reviewed properly,” Angara explained.

The SC recently declared unconstitutional the President’s first EO which creates the Truth Commission that designed to investigate alleged anomalies of the previous administration of former President and now Pampanga congresswoman Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Angara, himself a former executive secretary, said the legal counsel of the President plays a very important role in the issuance of the executive orders and presidential proclamations.

“In my experience as an executive secretary, a president’s legal council also serves as the liaison between the executive and the judiciary. They don’t just troubleshoot and solve the legal problems that come up, they serve as your legal coordinators with the Department of Justice,” veteran lawmaker from Aurora said.

With this, Angara also said the public should give the new administration a bit more leeway to make their own decisions.

“This is still a young government, and I believe they will toughen up especially under all this pressure. The president and his advisers are smart enough to avoid these kinds of lapses in the future,” Angara said.

” The bottom line is, we shouldn’t be too harsh on PNoy’s legal team. In my opinion, little by little, they’ll do just fine,” he added. (PNA)
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