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KINONTRA NI House Assistant Majority Leader at Lanao del Sur Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong ang isang Civil Service Commission (CSC) memorandum na nagbabawal sa mga kawani ng gobyerno na mag-like at share ng mga social media post ng mga partisano at kandidato sa nalalapit na halalan.
Para kay Adiong, masyado rin mabigat ang parusang anim na buwang suspensyon sa unang paglabag at pagkasibak sa trabaho sa sandaling umulit pa.
Sinang-ayunan naman ni Adiong, na pinuno ng House Ad Hoc Committee on Marawi Rehabilitation and Victims Compensation, ang pagkontra ng CSC sa pakikibahagi ng mga regular government employees sa partisan political activities.
“I think as a civil servant, if you are a regular employee of the government, I agree that you should not take part actively in partisan politics, meaning you don’t campaign for any candidates because you’ve been hired by the government. The resources that you are getting, your main livelihood is coming from the public funds. I mean taxpayers man ‘yung nagpapa sweldo sa iyo,” sabi ng Lanao del Sur lawmaker.
“So it’s just proper and appropriate and prudent for a civil servant not to engage himself or herself actively in partisan politics. We don’t join the campaign or endorse any candidates,” dugtong niya.
“Pero yung simple like sa Facebook at mga (social media) account, that to me is overreaching. It’s too punitive. I hope that the Civil Service Commission would reconsider their policy on this,” sambit din ng ranking House official.
Para kay Adiong, ang pag-like sa isang media post ay hindi naman maikokonsidera na partisan politics
“Para sa akin, I hope that we can still maintain that our civil servants remain non-partisan and apolitical. But as simple liking, for a very simple reason that they like the messaging na hindi naman sila nag-endorso o nangangampanya sa kandidato is to me too restrictive and too punitive.” (ROMEO ALLAN BUTUYAN II)
