By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle
City Vice Mayor Jose Antonio Veloso was stripped of his chairmanship of the city council’s most powerful committee shortly after two new ex officio members of the Sanggunian Panlungsod (SP) were sworn into office last Wednesday.
Veloso was in Manila attending a conference of vice mayors when the coup was carried out during the SP session.
The revamp was viewed by many as an indication of how the so-called new majority of the SP will rule on issues and cast their vote every time a legislative measure will be adopted.
Engineered by Kag. Danilo Bantugan, nine councilors voted for a resolution declaring all positions of all committees vacant.
A second resolution followed naming the members of the SP’s 23 standing committees with a change in chairmanships in two of the most important committees, the committee on appropriations and the committee on engineering and public works.
The move came when other opposition kagawads Bebiano Inting and Lucio Balbin were out of town. Inting was in Manila while Balbin is still in the US.
The two committees were chaired by Veloso and Kag. Zenaido Rama, both critics of City Mayor Dan Lim.
Kag. Oscar Glovasa replaced Veloso as chairman with Kag. Lucio Balbin as vice chair.
Glovasa was also elected as chair of the committee on engineering with Kag. Edgar Kapirig as vice chair.
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