Charter ready if prexy quits

CALLS for President Noynoy Aquino to quit over the Mamasapano incident, where 44 elite police commandos were routed in a day of fighting with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), are mounting.

But should PNoy resign over the Mamasapano debacle?

I don’t think it is in his nature to resign over that incident.

*** PNoy’s term ends at noon on June 30 next year. After hinting of a second term, PNoy finally said he was looking forward to the day he steps down from office and be with his very close friends.

People from the National Transformation Council (NTC) and the One Billion Rising want him to be with his friends this early. The NTC even convinced retired Cebu archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal to read their call for PNoy to quit, twice.

But when is it too early to quit?

*** The Cebu Archdiocese said Cardinal Vidal did not make a direct call for PNoy to resign. It was not his statement. It was the statement of the NTC, saying “recent developments have made this call (to resign) even more urgent and imperative.”

But the NTC also wants Vice President Jejomar Binay to resign, including all the other officials so they can set up a government composed of patriots, most probably NTC members.

Most patriots die for their country. Are there some left alive?

*** But are we really prepared if PNoy quits? The framers of our Charter have anticipated that. No, not PNoy’s resignation.

If a president quits, it sets in motion the constitutional provision on who should replace him, and it’s the vice president.

If both the president and the vice president quits, the Senate President or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in that order, shall sit as president until the president and the vice president shall have been elected.