By Rey Anthony Chiu
PIA - Bohol Would this recent Palace rigodon effect a good time for Visayans?
The recent movement of key Palace positions has strategically placed at least two Cebuano speaking men and two more capable of understanding the dialect, close to where the action is.
The shift involves Davaoeño Jesus Dureza, Cebuano Cerge Remonde, former Central Visayas Police Regional Director Avelino Razon and retired army chief Hermogenes Esperon who had a long military stint in Mindanao.
To this, many see as an omen of times for Cebuano regions.
The shift came as Former Press Secretary Jesus Dureza asks the President a lighter load and was consequently granted Chief Presidential Legal Counsel.
Dureza, who hails from Davao, was formerly the Press Secretary reportedly confided to Secretary Eduardo Ermita his wish to get a lighter load to attend to his ailing wife battling a kidney ailment.
Dureza, graduate of the Ateneo de Davao placed 10th in the 1973 Bar Exams, scored 100 percent in Criminal Law – is taking over a post vacated by Sergio Apostol since February of last year.
Meanwhile Presidential Management Staff (PMS) head Cerge Remonde assumes the position vacated by Dureza.
Remonde, a top Cebuano media worker headed the Kapisanan ng mga Broadcaster ng Pilipinas for six terms, used to head the Presidential Management Staff prior to his new job as Press Secretary.
To replace Remonde as PMS head is Presidential Adviser for the Peace Process Hermogenes Esperon Jr.; and to take over him as PAPP is retired Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Avelino Razon, presently the deputy national security adviser.
The development also elates Visayans who realize that somebody whom they could easily rub elbows with is that close to the President. Getting that close also means these men could haggle with the President for more development projects in the region, they said.
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