This is surely preliminary.
Highly placed sources are revealing this still incomplete but close to the final make up of the next President’s official family.
It is a mix of seasoned executives with previous cabinet-level portfolio slots and newcomers armed with valued friendly-cum-professional ties with Senator Noynoy Aquino.
Notable in this list are suck posts as foreign affairs and justice secretaries, the heads for the revenue-generating agencies and those that handle mutual funds.
I am thinking this early ‘leak’ serves that purpose of trial balloons to gauge the prospective cabinet members’ acceptability.
Expect both salutary reactions and brickbats being thrown in their direction.
Officially the Aquino search committee for these and lower level selections is headed by former civil service commission chair Karina David.
But it has also been reported that the Aquino sisters Ballsy and Viel arr helping vet the long list of applicants for the obvious reason of affirming their personal closeness and loyalty to their brother.
This is entirely understandable.
But certainly some of the criticisms will be well-intentioned.
Here’s the working list:
1.Buddy Zamora
2.PAGCOR chair – Bong Naguiat;
3.Pete Prado - DOTC;
4.Dinky Soliman DSWD;
5.Bobby De Ocampo – DOF;
6.Popoy Juico – DAR;
7.Jojo Ochoa – Exec Secretary;
8.Rene Almendras – DPWH;
9.Cesar Purisima – DTI;
10.Arben Santos – Customs;
11.Eddie Gana – GSIS;
12.Jun Simon DILG;
13.Cesar Sarino – SSS;
14.Atty. Avelino Cruz – DOJ;
15.Johnny Santos – DOE;
16.Sonny Dominguez – DA;
17.Butch Abad – DepEd;
18.Ramon Del Rosario – Foreign Affairs
More to come.
Popularity: 4% [?]
Not very impressive to me. Looks recylcled to me.
same old, same old.
tiger bobby de ocampo looks ok for me in finance.
jun simon in dilg? i don’t know.
Noynoy’s finance-guru will have work to do. Early this week, Finance Secretary Margarito Teves advised that having won, the Noynoy-campaign promise of “No New Taxes” can be revisited. Teves says that “revenue-enhancement measures” (i.e. tax increases) will be needed if improved tax administration, collection efficiency, and curbed smuggling fail to raise the necessary revenues.
Agree. Everybody should have work to do, they sure as heel should/must have work to do! To heck with Sec. Teves, he’s past tense therefore don’t have much to do when Noynoy starts. Better he just shut up and leave the works to the new guys who might just do the jobs better.
Very cute — a GMA cabinet member telling Noynoy to flipflop on a campaign promise.
his speech at mbc said he would refrain from increasing taxes. refrain doesnt mean “won’t ever”.
i will be disappointed if he doesnt at least try to raise tax collection efficiency. if his first and only move is to raise taxes, then he’s definitely reneged on his promise.
Maybe Noynoy can hold off until 2012 before he raises taxes.
But Noynoy should file charges, Noynoy filing charges against those on his LIST of smugglers and tax-vevaders will fulfill campain promises.
My own bet is it will be Jess Robredo of Naga.
Ding,
Agree with you, he was my bet too, I thought he was a shoo-in for the DILG…until a glitch happened. My reliable deep-throat source told me he was pictured to be with a group which include Dinky Soliman and others who was tasked to dispense with a miniscule amount of P5billion for the enhancement of Noynoy’s image during the campaign. The amount, the wags says, cannot be accounted for by the group. That picture somehow diminished his chances for DILG, but I’m still hoping. Jess Robredo is one of the good guys.
Ding, Bert,
I consider Jesse Robredo as one of the top young-gun contender for this position. Anyone who has a Mechanical Engineering background gets my attention. Specially, to transform Naga into a commonwealth city. Brilliant.
As you will note, methinks one aspect in this ‘floated list’ is to draw reactions. I don’t think that it is at all final.
Recycled? Does not matter.
Are any of them dumb and ineffectual therefore just barnacle in the new administration? Are they clean and no spotty records? Are they in conformity with Noynoy’s avowed mission of clean and effective governance. That’s all that mattered.
as expected, recycled opinion from rego ego–since when did it matter?
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20100531-273032/Old-faces-in-next-Cabinet-bode-ill-for-Aquino
They can’t be serious about recycling Popoy Juico back at DAR. Will he be in charge of keeping DAR’s hands off Hacienda Luisita? This is the only explanation given his dismal record as the DAR secretary who got Pres Cory Aquino’s administration embroiled in the Garchitorena Land Scam. This is a poor signal of so-called “Change”.
I don’t see the name floated for Department of Defense. Is Gibo still being considered? (I hope he is.)
Will find out but if Teodoro is being considered he’ll have to wait one year…
You’re right…forgot about that.
and hope no typhoon during his watch :-)
during one of the interviews, aquino said that he is open to appointing gibo. but yes, we’ll have to wait a year after if this will manifest.
honestly I dont trust noynoy, the people behind him, and the people he will be appointing. Noynoy has no track record to prove me otherwise. malacanang is no joke and 6 yrs is a long time to suffer for our wrong judgement of who really is the best one to lead the country.
I’m more worried about how the Executive branch is organized. It’s time to reorganize. DSWD and DPWH should be regional. DENR should not handle environmental protection. DOTC should be split into transportation only and communication only.
Maybe this is the time to appoint cabinet level regional governors to handle the functions of DSWD, DPWH, and DOH.
Decentralizing seems sound. I hear that there are different cartels in the prov’l, reg’l and national levels. As a contractor, you just have to find your “niche market.”
Ding, please revise your list as more “rumors” come in.
If this is a trial balloon I have only to say to the messenger to bring back to the source:
Noynoy, your appointments are BORING DEADWEIGHTS in a country with a population of 96M.
Pu tan gina. Saan diyan ang Change or Reform?
well…kaya nga di si noy ang minanok ko eh.
Latest utterance from Noynoy — (1) He does not want to leave Times Street (background: Kris says living along Pasig has bad feng shui); (2) he complains the tax on president’s income is too high. [I guess he'll want lower income tax on congressmen, senators, cabinet members if it gets a law passed. But to me, a better solution is for President, Judges, senators, congressmen to get 20% pay raises while keeping the income tax rates. And Pinas should raise tax-rate on dividend income.]
1. talo manok mo so it’s irrelavant
2. your manok would probably have deadweights and trapos in his cabinet anyway.
Mike H,
Easy now, your talking investment plan here. These type of vested mutual plan are for the long term. And hold to your horses, my vested funds are held in a tax-deferred account.
Where is your future, or who has your portfolio plan. Becareful of this type of term. It’s your retirement vested plan too. I am just about there, retirement.
You understand residual income…!
Unless, you are working for Manny Villar. Now I can see where you are coming from.
mario: your retirement portfolio is probably in US mutual funds so raising the tax on Pilipinas dividend means diddly-squat to you. and if you have maple leafs or krugerrands, then those don’t spit out income, so income taxes mean nothing.
Mike H,
Think about it. I am retiring in the island i was born into.
This means, I may just get hit by double taxes when I start collecting my pension.
That’s not good if the dividend for certain filipino’s are effected by such program, who deserves it the most. That’s you and I.
Let us all put all political ideologies, at the back. The New President is only the symbol of leadership. We, the people; are the ones that can accomplish. No matter how good he will rule. If people will continue to the Path of Politics of Destruction. No thing good will be accomplished. We only have ourselves to blame. Why our country is stagnant. Educated people are leaving the country, to work as “tsimays” and “tsimoys”, abroad. Underemployed, mistreated and underpaid. People are forced to work that way. Because, there are no good jobs available. We have to produce food, to feed ourselves. Corruption is always the illness of our nation. Most of our Politicians are corrupt. Political offices are destinations for people seeking: “easy wealth”. Good luck to the new administration. We will be watching closely.
mario cruz,
Where have you been for the past decade. We Filipinos are very strong abroad, specially in Daly City, California. Michael P. Guingona who is the Mayor of the City. A Pinoy, and we are proud of it. The largest Asian per capita in the whole United States of America.
If you have been in Daly City, California, Filipinos in that communities are pretty well off. Highly educated and friendly to be with. How do I know this, my uncle and my cousins lives in Daly City. Beautiful, clean, and the fog always rolls in, during late afternoon. Creepy…!
I’m from the East Coast of the United States. I’m a Technically educated man. Educated in the Philippines and in the United States. I ran a business for a while. Then, I went into writing. I discovered one day that I can write. Blogging and arguing with some Filipinos on this FV site is just a past time. To prime my brain. I like poking on the brains of people. So, that they will think.
Pardon my being a Pest sometimes. But, like the ubiquitos mosquito. I have to bite you some of the times.
just another Pinoy-in-USA capitalist globalization bloodsucker, heh heh heh. Laban! Corona, talsik diyan!!!
But doncha worry because you have allies Noynoyistas who also think that the incoming administration should put even less effort into poverty alleviation.
mario cruz,
Here’s a quote from: Max Born
mario cruz,
Oh yeah.
Don’t worry about mike h, he’s just another “antagonist” who still hoping for the best for miss pandak…!
I believe in relativity. Everything is relative to your point of view. Like the Great Albert Eistein: Theory of Relativity.
Nothing happens by chance. An effect can become a cause. And, a cause, can become an effect. There are more we don’t know about: birth, life itself, death, spirit world, spirituality, God, religions or why your mother-in-law sometimes irk you, etc… Many things yet to be known about our universe.
I believe everything is a dichotomy of everything. If there is sorrow, joy will come. If there is darkness, the light will come. If there is pain, relief is under way. What you think in your mind, will manifest to fruition. If you continue to think about it. If you think, the Blogger is a Pest. He will
continue to be a Pest. Whether, you like it or not…I wish I can tell you more.But, I had to go back to my projects.
mario cruz,
Sounding off more like a space-cadet there.
Go ahead, continue on with your Ark project. Never know will the next storm will rise.
strongly agree with you…educated people are leaving our country…but not only as tsimoy or tsimays…yes we…I am one of them that has no hope to the countless corruption that makes your eyes blind and make our country go deeper to the mud…an eye opener was the Typhoon Ondoy…if the funds are properly allocated we will not experienced that kind of massive flooding…tsk tsk…
If some of the initiatives from GMA administration see light of day, then Pilipinas Department of Energy will be very busy.
A March 2010 Korea newspaper write that . . . . the Philippines plans to augment its electrical generation capability by 3,000 megawatts by 2012 to meet rising demand within the country. It plans to build 14 nuclear reactors to accomplish this. Due to a supply shortage, electricity bills in the Philippines are the second highest in Asia.
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Mark O Cojuangco, a member of the Philippine House of Representatives, delivered a letter from President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to Knowledge Economy Minister Choi Kyung-hwan, ministry officials said. The letter conveys the Philippines’ intent to buy the facilities for the two reactors currently owned by the Korea Electric Power Corp. (Kepco), the officials said.
The two reactors were once intended for North Korea as incentives for the North to give up its nuclear weapons program. They have remained only 35 percent complete due to tension between the two counties.
If noynoy pursues the nukes, then GMA as House Speaker will probably be a good ally.
Wow, you’re really pro-Arroyo.
cvj,
Mike H, can’t seem to figure out that miss pandak is buying expensive lunches, through-out her Presidential career. Let’s throw in golf lessons, as well. Rather than what he thinks, that GMA is vesting on nuclear energy.
Where did all that “elementary particle having no charge” go…!
Last month, Bongbong was quoted as follows:
Friday, April 9, 2010 PAGADIAN CITY — Reopening the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) is “our best option” for solving the current power crisis, said senatorial candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. Marcos said the BNPP offers “the quickest way to add a new source of power” because it can be made operational within a year or even less.
Marcos said during a tour in the facility that according to the experts, the BNPP “is still in very good condition.” He also assured that the nuclear technology used in the BNPP “is much newer than the one used in Chernobyl,” debunking fears widely circulated that it will be unsafe to operate the facility.
Maybe what happens in the Noynoy administration is this scenario.
(1) BNPP remains closed; (2) Pilipinas ‘installs” nuclear plants in Pangasinan or even in the bicol area.
Noynoy, during the campaign trail, said that he opposed BNPP revival. Surely, Noynoy will not flipflop on BNPP, especially with BongBong in the Senate plus the bishops-in-red-cloaks saying they oppose BNPP.
But agreeing to “nuclear” but not in Bataan — Noynoy may do that — and he may sign onto Korean-nuclear versus USA or Japan or French.
That will be a sight when Bongbong, Mikey Arroyo, Noynoy, Mark Cojuangco, even Cynthia Villar, Ruffy Biazon and Gibo Teodoro doing one photo-op when the next nuclear plant opens on Pilipinas soil. [I don't think Jun Lozada will be in the picture, heh heh heh.]
Pilipinas energy shortage is real. Noynoy governance will be tempted and tested. Behind-closed-door negotiations: likely. Pinoys in Pinas have to be very attentive.
Time-to-build a 600mw and larger nuke plant is 7 to 18 years. Pilipinas experience, though, is that building a nuke plant is not the same as obtaining a watt of electricity from a nuclear plant.
Pinas will have to fire up more coal and diesel plants to provide energy shortage relief. OR: Pinas will need a half-dozen Hyperion or Toshiba pocket nukes while Noynoy starts what the next president after him will finish.
Energy shortage can be alleviated by investing directly in oil and gas companies. Colombia,Peru,Canadian oilsands, even Thailand all are very promising places to invest in since still at early stages. I wonder if any comparative analysis is done comparing investing in nuclear power versus other alternatives like compressed gas (Australia can be a good source of LNG), conventional and uncoventional sources of energy. Tie this with the population growth and projected demand for the next 50 years so that we can see the whole picture and arrive at best decisions.
Ocampo at DOF, Purisima at DTI, Dominguez at DA all doctrinaire free traders.
So much for change.
DOJ – Cruz of the Firm. Great movement for change.
“If noynoy pursues the nukes, then GMA as House Speaker will probably be a good ally.”-Mike H
Why, mike h, can you elaborate? If PGMA is really such a lover of nuke where are the nukes in Pinas during her long stay in the palace?
And why should we buy two surplus nuclear reactor from Kepco and not new quality reactors which are safer?
And, mike h, are you really praying for PGMA to become the House Speaker? My advice to you…pray some more, Baclaran Church is a very effective place to pray, if you know the correct procedure, :).
bert; you should get past the nine-year-old mindset of wanting others to give you the answers to your questions.
Maybe this will shake you from a bad habit. A reason why GMA will be a good ally is because you don’t need an airplane to travel between Pampanga and Tarlac. I hope you don’t like that answer and think of one on your own, heh heh heh.
mike h, if Noynoy pursues the nukes, all the congressmen that matter will be on his side and GMA will be in her lonesome, alone in Lubao, so Noynoy does not need an airplane, a car, or a jeep, to travel to Lubao, Pampanga, heheh. BTW, mike h, did Noynoy say he loves nuke as much as GMA do?
i dont get it. she’ll be a good ally coz she can travel from pampangga and tarlac? bakit?
Manong Ding,
Your post had clearly said that the list is probably a trial balloon meant to guage reactions. Great metaphor there. Might I apply the same to the strongest reactions so far generated in this string?
Those who hide behind pen names seem to have the strongest reactions and the most empty justifications compared to those who at least seem to be upfront with their identity and consequently with their reasoned justifications. As hot air baloons rise higher, metaphorically, they are less “grounded”.
As I’ve mentioned to you several times before, you have this brilliant way of catalyzing debate – whether through posts, tickling our most sensitive parts or through trial balloons. But if there is to be substance to that debate, while blogs accept all sorts, Nick’s vision of a site that enhances discussion is better served by those that go beyond ad hominem and those fired by gunslingers who shoot from the hip emboldened by their anonymity.
That said, it is not a generalization. Some of the most profound can come from posts with the shortest names.
Nakiliti mo na naman kami, partner!
Regards Manong and keep poking,
Dean
Thanks, Manong.
Am sure you find resonance in my goal – to help fuel vigorous debate and hopefully distill consensus if not agreement to disagree,
I dont think you cn beat BenignQ on that goal. I think Benigo is the most effective among the bloggers that I know who can really trigger a vigorous debate and he even participates on it vigorusly and passionately.
I am not competing with anyone.
News reports this morning say Aquino has confirmed that Atty. Ochos will be his executive secretary.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/insights/05/25/10/who-noynoy%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98little-president%E2%80%99
what say you if Boy Abunda becomes part of the growing family?
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/192300/noynoy-wants-boy-abunda-in-his-government
i think its a fine idea. but the question is, is he willing to give up his lucrative job?
looks like he’s said no.
ding, may pumalya na sa list mo.
si juico, sa philippine charity sweepstakes office, not in the DAR.as said, this piece is simply a “trial balloon” but by whom? Surely, not from the Noynoy camp.
anyway, great piece.
Pat, gaya ng sinabi sa simula, alam kong hindi ito kumpleto at final. Patuloy pa ang mga pag-uusap.
May kausap ako na insider/s plus several journalists. Patuloy pa selection process.
Ding,
Noynoy cannot appoint Arben Santos to any government position because he is a relative by marriage.
Thanks, MB.
Off topic but sharing:
http://atmidfield.com/2010/03/26/a-law-bastardized-r-a-7941-1st-update/