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Former Comelec law department chief Ferdinand Rafanan. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO<\/p><\/div>\n

MANILA, Philippines \u2013 Commission on Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. on Tuesday defended the transfer to the Comelec law department of an election official linked to the P690 million ballot secrecy folder anomaly in the 2010 national elections.<\/p>\n

Brillantes said that he would confront on Wednesday former Comelec law department chief Ferdinand Rafanan for issuing \u201cmisleading\u201d statements that he had been replaced by lawyer Allen Francis Abaya, the official linked to the anomaly.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s irritating. He\u2019s saying that Abaya replaced him. That\u2019s not true,\u201d Brillantes said in an interview. \u201cI don\u2019t know what he wants. I will face him in the en banc,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Brillantes said the official currently in charge of the Comelec law department was Commissioner Rene Sarmiento.<\/p>\n

He said that Abaya actually replaced Comelec law department deputy chief Josslyn De Mesa, who was also reassigned from the law department because, according to Brillantes, Rafanan asked for it because he was not getting along with De Mesa.<\/p>\n

He said Rafanan and De Mesa were \u201cfighting\u201d and this was affecting the whole law department.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s there in the [en abnc] resolution. [Abaya] replaced the deputy. De Mesa was Rafanan\u2019s enemy. He wanted her out of the law department so we took her out of there,\u201d Brillantes said.<\/p>\n

Rafanan was reassigned to the Department of Justice-Comelec special committee investigating the alleged fraud during the 2004 and 2007 elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will ask [Rafanan] about what he\u2019s saying. If he does not want it, then we\u2019ll remove him from the special committee. We will assign them to another place,\u201d Brillantes said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he shouldn\u2019t mislead and say that this was the motive for his assignment to the special committee. The motive there was for the law department to quiet down,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Brillantes said Sarmiento, not Abaya, would now be running the department and would be making the major decisions.<\/p>\n

He said Abaya was charged administratively at the Office of the Ombudsman for the folder scam and the case was still pending. Brillantes added that Abaya had been suspended for six months.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will wait for the resolution. If [the Ombudsman rules that] he should be removed, then we will remove him. There\u2019s no problem,\u201d Brillantes said.<\/p>\n

He added that these assignments were \u201ctemporary\u201d and would only last for three months.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbaya is acceptable to the lawyers of the law department. They know him because he came from there. We asked around. We don\u2019t have a reshuffle without any basis,\u201d Brillantes said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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