OFW FAMILY CLUB PARTYLIST RUNS AGAINST THE INTERESTS IF OFWS AND THEIR FAMILY

By Belarmino Dabalos Saguing, Rome, Tuesday 31.07.23013

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OFW Family Patylist must be trying hard to commit political suicide in trying to place Jo Christine Napoles daughter of a lady who get super rich with pork barrel money from corrupt senators and congressmen, as their second nominee. Napoles is the daughter of Janet Lim Napoles of JLN Trading that is recently implicated in a P10-billion pork barrel scam. Seneres’ children, according to reports, were the ones who elected Napoles as nominee because “she is a long-time friend”.

The said Patylist is now in a very interesting situation of fishing around for nominees after their other nominees has resigned for a variety of resons and substitutes are rejected by COMELEC as irregularities because they are not included the list of nominees submitted prior to the elections.

The OFW Family Partylist now has a very questionable position as the representative of OFWs worldwide. The original set of nominees submitted by former Ambassador Roy Seneres, Sr., were himself as first nominee, his son Seneres, Jr. as second nominee, his daughter Hannah Seneres Francisco as third nominee and seaman Melchor Rosales as fourth nominee.

Seneres, Sr. said that when the partylist won two seats in the recent mid-term elections, both the Seneres children and Rosales were asked to resign, to be replaced by Juan “Johnny” Revilla and Napoles. After the elections, Seneres ousted Revilla as second nominee because of his US citizenship and said that Napoles would take his place as the partylist’s second-seater in Congress.  Comelec did not allow Napoles to “move up” as second nominee because her name was not included in the partylist’s list of official nominees. Revilla, on the other hand, is also under attack for his dubious track record. He is the project manager of Placewell Manpower, a recruitment agency contracted by the Comelec to man PCOS machines in the 2010 elections.

According to reports, Placewell Manpower was one of three companies that won the contract from Smartmatic-TIM to supply 50,000 IT technicians responsible for operating 82,000 PCOS machines in the May 10, 2010 presidential elections. It is also one of the most notorious recruitment agencies involved in countless cases of illegal recruitment, contract substitution and other contract violations against OFWs,

The facts appears to point out that OFW Family Partylist is a partylist of relatives and friends. This is particularly questionable especially since the Comelec has been particularly strict with its requirements for some partylist groups last elections.

All these regularities indicates that OFW Family represents the Seneres family, and its friends whose interest runs against the, the interests of OFWs around the world and their family, and must be renamed Seneres Family and corrupt recruiting agency partylist.

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