Anytime this week, the Union of Foreign Service Officers, will bring to court the issue of the extension of the service of political ambassadors appointed by Gloria Arroyo.
It would be the first suit against officials of the Aquino administration. Members of the UNIFORS are not happy doing this but they have to inorder to restore the rule of law in the department.
The foreign service suffered immensely with Gloria Arroyo’s utter contempt of the law implemented dutifully by her (and now Aquino’s) Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo. Foreign service officers had great hopes that under the leadership of President Aquino, professionalism would return and department would regain its premier role in the government.
It is this yearning for professional foreign service that they are bringing the issue of the extension of the service of political ambassadors to court.