The Regional Trial Court decided yesterday to submit for resolution the application for the issuance of a temporary restraining order filed by Allan Zamora during the hearing of the case involving the invalidation of his appointment as Legal Officer of Bacolod City.

RTC Judge George Patriarca also scheduled for hearing the application for the issuance of a writ of preliminary injunction filed by Zamora on May 4.

Zamora had filed last week a petition for prohibition with prayer for the issuance of a temporary restraining order/ or writ of preliminary injunction against Imelda Abueg and Raymund Gonzales, CSC regional office director VI and director III, respectively, and the CSC proper before RTC Branch 46. This was after the CSC issued Resolution 07-0365 dated Feb. 26, 2007 ordering Mayor Evelio Leonardia to implement the decision on the invalidation of Zamora's appointment as CLO.

During the hearing yesterday, only Gonzales appeared to represent himself after he and Abueg had filed a motion for postponement and asked the Court to transfer the hearing of the case to May 11 since they are still coordinating with the Solicitor General. However, this was opposed by Zamora yesterday.

Zamora recalled that after the CSC issued the Resolution, Abueg also issued the mayor an ultimatum of 24 hours to implement the CSC order. However, the Mayor answered that the CSC has no authority to order the implementation of the Resolution since its only authority is to monitor the implementation, based on Resolution 07-0365.

Leonardia had also filed a motion for reconsideration which is still pending with the CSC.

Zamora said "Let us see if the Solicitor General will represent them." He believes that what will happen is that the Solicitor General will deputize the office of the provincial prosecutor to represent him in the case, he said.*CGS

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