It is now crystal-clear why the Department of Justice has been delaying the filing of the third batch of pork barrel scam complaints with the office of the Ombudsman until today. The list of persons to be charged would include the prominent members of the ruling Liberal Party and the useful political allies of the Aquino administration in the past four years since 2010.

President Benigno S. Aquino 3rd certainly would not want his party and people to be put in a bad light with the 2016 presidential elections just two years away. It would adversely affect the chances of Liberal Party candidates and spoil the chance of the person he would endorse for the presidency.

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