Recto awaiting CA confirmation
NEWLY-designated Finance Secretary Ralph Recto is among the 171 presidential appointees waiting for confirmation by the powerful Commission on Appointments (CA).
The CA hearings will resumes session on January 22.
According to CA Assistant Minority Leader and Surigao del Sur Rep. Johnny Pimentel, the appointment papers of Recto was already received by the body together with the 168 senior military officers.
Based on CA records, Flerida Ann Camille Mayo was named Philippine ambassador to Cambodia while Edgar Tomas Auxilian was selected Philippine ambassador to Papua New Guinea with concurrent jurisdiction over Kiribati and Solomon Islands.
Pimentel said the latest batch of senior military officers awaiting their confirmation hearings is led by four Philippine Army major generals: Leodevic Guinid, Allan Hambala, Edmund Peralta, and Ramon Zagala II.
“We also have 13 brigadier generals from the Philippine Army, three commodores from the Philippine Navy and 148 colonels from the Philippine Army and the Philippine Air Force pending confirmation,” Pimentel said.
Pimentel urged the public to submit to the CA Secretariat any information, written report, or sworn/notarized complaints or oppositions to the appointees.
The Constitution empowers the 25-member CA to scrutinize the competence, fitness and integrity of key presidential appointees, and to approve or disapprove them.
The commission is composed of 12 members each from the House of Representatives and the Senate, with the Senate President as ex officio presiding officer.
