One hopes in earnest that the President's recently widely vocalized vows towards the full implementation of the CARP will find true realization before the CARP Law ceased to be enforceable, and failed to be renewed by Congress by 2014. The principal acid test of this presidential promise will be THE case of the Hacienta Luisita Inc.
Even as the CARP people have been previously reported as leaving no stones upturned towards the ultimate distribution of the Hacienda to the farmers, there still subsists serious doubts that, faced by the numerous number of farmer-beneficiaries that must yet be first identified, the distribution process might be overtaken by the scheduled expiration of the CARP Law some two years from now. The other problem might be the pricing of the farms which the Hacienda owners had wanted to be P1 million per hectare as against the P40 thousand already awarded by the Supreme Court. Moreover, how would the court now resolve this pricing issue following the dismissal of Renato Corona as Chief Justice.
Whether or not the CARP Law needs to be extended principally depends upon Congress. Even so, given the President's continually very high acceptance rating and strong hold of both houses, he only needs to certify the extension of that law as urgent, and our lawmakers, I am sure, would willingly way. The little problem is the President keep saying as early as now that given several extensions already, another extension in 2014 may not be categorically assured. I am afraid then that when that time comes, the President may simply say: "I'm sorry; as you see, I have done everything I can to fulfill my vow on the full implementation of the CARP, but I am simply overtaken by expiration of the prevailing law." I hope these impressions of mine would end up wrong.
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