POC election panel to decide on protests

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THE contending parties in the coming Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) elections were given until noon this Saturday to submit their summation after election committee chair Atty. Teodoro Alejandro Kalaw IV heard the arguments of both sides yesterday during a clarificatory procedure at the Century Park Hotel.

Kalaw and PSC Commissioner Olivia “Bong” Coo, committee member, heard at least four petitions for disqualification from the camps of incumbent POC president Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino and challenger Joaquin “Chito” Loyzaga for the elections set on Nov. 29 at the East Ocean Seafood Restaurant.

“With the summation, we could determine the merits of their protests,” said Kalaw, who didn’t provide a timeline for the election committee to decide on the arguments.

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With Tolentino during the proceedings were his “Working Team” candidates for POC board members Alvin Aguilar (wrestling), Alexander “Ali” Sulit (judo) and Leah Jalandoni Gonzales (fencing), as well as POC secretary general Atty. Wharton Chan and legal head Atty. Billy Sumagui.

Loyzaga was with Robert Bachmann (squash), Freddie Jalasco (wushu) and Rommel Miranda (kurash), as well as gymnastics deputy secretary general Rowena Bautista Eusuya.

Atty. Lean Carlo Macoto of the Aranas Cruz Araneta Parker and Faustino Law firm presented some of the Loyzaga ticket’s arguments but he, along with Loyzaga and Bachmann, left the proceedings before it was adjourned by Kalaw, leaving Jalasco and Eusuya to represent the group.

Vovinam’s Jose Ponciano Malonzo also attended the hearing to withdraw his protest against Bachmann’s qualification for the post of second vice president.

Tolentino didn’t comment on the proceeding but stressed that the “POC election procedures must be followed.”

The third member of the election committee, San Juan de Letran Calamba Rector and President Rev. Fr. Napoleon Encarnacion, O.P., excused himself from the hearing.

The POC has 61 voting members who will elect by secret balloting the organization’s president, first and second vice presidents, treasurer, auditor and five members of the executive board.

Others in Tolentino’s “Working Team” are basketball’s Alfredo “Al” Panlilio (first vice president), modern pentathlon’s Rep. Richard Gomez (second vice president), surfing’s Dr. Jose Raul Canlas (treasurer) and volleyball’s Donaldo “Don” Caringal (auditor and canoe-kayak’s Leonora “Len” Escolante (executive board).

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