MANILA - Only City Councilor Ann Mariquit D. Oppus chose not to join the 7th National Convention of the Philippine Councilors League (PCL) here which started last Friday at the World Trade Center and will wind up today.

City Vice Mayor Jose Antonio S. Veloso accompanied all the city councilors except Oppus in the annual gathering of city and municipal councilors highlighted with the election of the league's national officers yesterday.

As of this writing, the results of the election has not been known yet. But Sen. Migz Zubiri and National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales already made their respective speeches during the plenary session.

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PCL-Bohol Pres. Brigido Imboy was reported to be running as vice-chairman of the PCL Island Council for the Visayas but city councilors did not meet him as of yesterday afternoon during the voting.

It's good that the city vice-mayor saw to it that the city councilors were registered before hand. Otherwise, we would have suffered with the same predicament experienced by the other city and municipal councilors from all over the archipelago every time there is a PCL national convention.

Our accommodation at the Heritage Hotel is just fine through the courtesy of the city vice-mayor who acted as our chaperon.

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When we arrived here last Friday afternoon, we already got wind that the 2007 bar examination results will be released.

According to our sources, only 11% of the bar examinees made it in the original result submitted by the bar examination committee headed by Associate Justice Adolfo Azcuna. The graveyard area was in Civil Law and in Labor and Social Legislations where many bar examinees were reportedly disqualified.

The bar examination committee had to seek reconsideration in order to adjust the passing average while the Office of the Bar Confidant was still in the process of decoding the examination results.

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As of 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, our mole at the Supreme Court already revealed those who were in the top ten but we could not divulge their names here pending the official release of the bar results which we are still waiting as of this writing.

Even the Supreme Court website has promised to release the bar results yesterday afternoon but as we write this column, we still failed to access the High Tribunal's official website due to heavy Internet traffic.

Earlier, we already disclosed that the bar examination results will be released shortly after the Holy Week.

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