Aquino won’t force ERC chief to quit

President Benigno Aquino 3rd will not force Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) Chairman Zenaida Ducut to quit her post amid renewed calls by some lawmakers for her ouster for approving the record power rate increase sought by the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), a Palace official said.

Lawmakers from the party-list Akbayan on Thursday asked Aquino to remove Ducut, saying the ERC chief “is guilty of gross neglect of duty and incompetence by tacitly approving without the barest hint of due process Meralco’s unprecedented power rate hike.”