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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017
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BACOLOD City – The management of the Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) is opposed to holding a referendum during their Annual General Membership Assembly on April 30.
The Board of Directors wants to hold the referendum and the assembly all in just one day, said Ceneco president Arnel Lapore. “We want to save cost.”
But General Manager Sulpicio Lagarde Jr. said doing so is “not feasible” and “we [might] violate some rules.”
The referendum must start at 8 a.m. and end at 3 p.m., Lagarde said. If that rule is not followed, the referendum might be declared null and void, he stressed.
All electric cooperatives in the Philippines were ordered to hold a referendum for electric cooperative conversion.
Members of non-stock, nonprofit cooperatives must vote whether to:
* remain a non-stock, nonprofit electric cooperative under the National Electrification Administration
* convert into a stock cooperative under the Cooperative Development Authority; or
* convert into a stock corporation under the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Lapore argued that those who will vote in the referendum are the same people who will attend the general assembly.
“Why not make use the whole day [for the] referendum, and then we can close the precinct at 3 p.m. [and] proceed with the [assembly]?” he said.
But “if the management is not prepared to disseminate the information making the people understand what this (referendum) is all about, then we can … pursue the [assembly] on April 30 without the referendum,” said Lapore./PN
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