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PRESIDENT Arroyo has made two new appointments to the
Commission on Elections (Comelec)—former Court of
Appeals Justice Lucenito Tagle and Malabon Regional
Trial Court Judge Leonardo Leonida.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said in his weekly
news briefing that the President has also appointed
Defense Undersecretary Ruben Ciron as director-general
of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines and
Edgardo Pamintuan as chairman and chief executive
officer of the North Luzon Railways Corp.
Tagle
and Leonida will fill up the vacancies left by
Florentino Tuazon and Resurreccion Borra, who retired
earlier this year.
Ermita
said the President has no announcement yet on the
replacement of Comelec Commissioner Romeo Brawner, who
died of a heart attack in May.
The
President has also appointed veteran actress Amalia
Fuentes as acting member of the Movie and Television
Review and Classification Board.
The
other appointments are Public Works Undersecretary Romeo
Momo; Danilo Valero, executive director of the Road
Board Secretariat of the Department of Public Works and
Highways; Angelo Ang Palaña, commissioner representing
employers in the National Labor Relations Commission;
and Josephine Domingo, undersecretary for Indigenous
Peoples, Office of External Affairs. |
