IT’S one week before June and four months to October, unless COMELEC decides to move the filing of the Certificate of Candidacy to December 2015. No Calendar of Activities has been released by COMELEC and truly that is bothersome. That is one red flag that needs immediate and careful attention.

Another red flag that has been created because of the doggone insistence on deadlines is the Bangsamoro measure pending before Congress. First, peace cannot be legislated. Second, the Executive pressuring Congress to pass the measure by June 11 is the height of hubris, nothing new under this administration. There are only 8 session days and the approved draft by the adhoc Committee still needs the concurrence of the Committees on Appropriations (block grants and other monies) and Ways and Means (shares in national and local taxes), then plenary. While in the Senate, public hearings are still scheduled. And finally, insisting on the passage by June 11 is creating false hopes for the beneficiaries of the bill. Will it make the last State of the Nation hollow?

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