Dethronement is a very serious process and cannot just happen overnight, apparently with no valid reason. I want to understand but I feel there must be a legal basis for BPCI to pursue such deliberate action. The decision to dethrone VR has been taken after many days of agonizing deliberations, for or against. Let it be known I'm not in defense of BPCI and its cohorts of advisers. But since we were not privy to the internal affairs of its inner sanctum, might as well give the Organization the benefit of the doubt.
My views are mine alone as that of a 3rd party from a distance with no pretensions, bias or prejudice towards what must have transpired in the process. To say that dethronement was taken in response to a public clamor, or in the wake of conspiracies, or due to someone's influence, whim or fancy is utterly disdainful capricious thinking. Note that BPCI is ably supported by a team of legal luminaries, and any decision taken along that line particularly as it sought to dethrone a proclaimed winner in a nationally televised search system must be verifiable and cannot be done in haste.
Ms. Stella Araneta with a man (unknown) Photo from Google.
Mdm Stella de Araneta is a seasoned diplomat, a key officer of the corps diplomatique of her native Colombia to the Philippines and the Pacific Rim nations. Diplomatic protocol forbids that her office involves in the containment of half truths, she cannot deviate from the rules as the appointed National Director of the 3 grand slam pageants in the Philippines. She also cannot remain indifferent to complaints from the public and have to deal with them squarely in a transparent manner. She is guided by the niceties of diplomacy as she represents the interests of her native country in this region of the world.
Madame cannot allow her office nor her staff to be mired in any controversy that might scandalize her diplomatic stature for that matter. If such will happen, the consequences of such despicable acts will have reverberated in the sacrosanct nature of the diplomatic circles. She cannot allow these to happen.
Maybe the blame should be cast to the people who handled and promoted VR candidacy since the very start. They have manipulated her into believing, hence acceptance, she being vulnerable to the lure of national fame and confident in her renewed capabilities to overcome. But Venus cannot pretend not to know if there was indeed fraud when she filed her registration for the annual search.
A photo from the fan site showing (Unknown),Araneta,Pitoy Moreno and Trump
International competitions like the Ms U have stringent rules to adhere to. And the National Directors from all over the world have a responsibility to abide by those rules. Defrauding the organizers, or ignoring these rules if there is any possibility that truth will resurface in the end is a risk that cannot be allowed. Can the rules be ignored? Nah!. Which is the lesser evil? Dethronement of the titleholder as opposed to the national embarrassment of 90 million Filipinos and the culpable shame of a diplomat’s office if BPCI were found to have condoned or connived with half truths along the way?
If the findings were irreversible and the case established against VR, there’s no other way out but for BPCI to save face, and Madame will have no recourse but to cut loose from any form of worldwide condemnation as it is seen that a clean way out is too remote to find.
Just my 4 centavos worth
Stella Araneta should be tripped by MU franchise or else BPCI will lose fans and Followers....
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