The unstoppable lies of a woman to trigger a 'constitutional crisis'?
Item: "Marinduque Rep. Regina Ongsiako-Reyes yesterday warned of a possible constitutional crisis over the reported order of the Supreme Court for Congress to swear in her rival – the son of SC Associate Justice Presbitero Velasco – as representative of her province.
Speaking through her lawyer, Harry Roque, Reyes referred to the SC order directing Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. to swear in Lord Allan Velasco.."
Her lawyer Roque was recently caught also resorting to lying to Marinduquenos just to get an unacceptable, onerous deal in the Marinduque vs. Barrick Gold case, rammed into the throats of our provincial folk, apparently all for the money. Read here
Marinduquenos have so loudly, unmistakably rejected the money offer seeing through the cloak of lies and deception where these personalities apparently play their own shady parts.
The people of Marinduque are now wallowing in all all forms of lies and deception being orchestrated by the powers that shouldn't be. Behind all that is the color and smell of dirty money.
These I could tell the world we live in:
"The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial." - Robin Marantz Henig
Henig's cited figure, in all likelihood, is a mere approximation - a patent underestimation of our ever-evolving and continuously expanding vocabulary. Voluminous as the English lexicon may be, however, it might nevertheless run short of terms to categorize the material representations of Regina Ongsiako Reyes in accomplishing under oath, and in subsequently filing with the Comelec her Certificate of Candidacy (COC), as congressional candidate for the Lone Legislative District of Marinduque.
Reyes effortlessly spews conflicting details even on the most basic of information, such as the date of her birth and the circumstances of her marriages. As to her birthday, Reyes was born on July 3, 1958 per her birth certificate. However, she used different birthdays: July 3, 1964 in her COC for the May 13, 2013 elections; July 8, 1959, in the 2013 Voter' List Registry; July 3, 1959 in her U.S. passport; July 3, 1958 in her COC for Elections 2016.
She was likewise caught to have falsely claimed that she became a dual-citizen by virtue of her marriage to an American citizen. To be sure, the United States does not simply confer citizenship by reason of marriage to one of its subjects. The only way Reyes could then have acquired her American passport is when she was naturalized in the US, causing her to simultaneously lose her Filipino citizenship.
To further add to her growing list of false claims, let us not forget how she admitted non-compliance with the requirements of RA 9225 on the one hand, and in the same breath offered as evidence her alleged proof of compliance thereof, which compliance she incredibly forgot to have allegedly already satisfied, and which proof she miraculously recovered in the nick of time.
Apparently, Reyes is invoking as many grounds as she can to substantiate her false claim of Filipino citizenship. Inescapably, her varying justifications and up contradictory and irreconcilable. She is obviously oblivious of the legal requirements, she needed to fulfill in order to regain her lost Filipino citizenship. Thus, instead of going through the proper processes, she opted to weave a complicated fabricated story on how she is a Filipino residing in Marinduque when our laws clearly do not consider her as such.
The Comelec was not lulled by her machinations and rightfully disqualified her from the 2013 congressional race in SPA No. 13-053(DC). However, Reyes has continued to brazenly defy the Comelec, maintaining that she possesses the necessary eligibility to hold Congressional office even when there has been no substantial change whatsoever in the circumstances of her citizenship and residence from the time the Supreme Court disqualified her in Reyes vs. Comelec, G.R. No. 207264, up until now.
(to be continued).
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| Harry Roque and Regina O. Reyes |
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| Senatorial candidate Roque behind presidential candidate Jojo Binay in campaign sortie. Roque now floating 'constitutional crisis' concept in Congress with the ousting of Liberal Party's Regina Reyes. |
