Strictly Pinoy

Just what really should be our basis for electing officials?  The media resonate commentaries, opinions that certain officials are the best candidates for certain positions, yet their winnability is doubtful. So these commentators and political pundits downplay these competent, potential candidates and set the minds of the viewers and listeners to settle for popular candidates.  Where is the logic in that?  Fow what reason/s do we elect people?  To govern, right? (!) If there are competent, potential candidates, why shouldn't they be the ones to run and win elections?  Shouldn't their competence make them popular to gain enough votes to win elections? Is competence not the primary reason people should be elected?  No wonder that Filipinos always see elective officials lacking.  That pretty much answers why they have been voted into office in the first place.  So, will Filipinos still settle for popularity?  Or shouldn't it be for competence?...

Politics vs Public Service Why do we need to choose leaders based on popularity? Unless Filipinos stopped treating elections as some kind of popularity contest - desired change in government will never happen. 2022 wannabes already declared their intentions, others still assessing their winnability, while some have lost their luster from their 2016 ill-timed candidacies. The 2022 National Election is like a litmus paper. It is showing the kind of politicians there are in the Philippines. Never should Filipinos go with rhetorics. They should look closely on what these wannabes have done while in office. what these wannabes have done while in office . This consideration should take 50% of their deciding factors.  The grassroot development initiatives of the wannabes should take center stage and not the propensity to be in the news for gutter style politicking. The Filipinos are a proud race. Give your votes the dignity it deserve.  Unity vs Personal Grandeur Politicians focus ...

The necessary push to Secretary Mar Roxas' campaign for the presidency and winning it, is Congresswoman  Leni Robredo. No other Vice - Presidentiable/s can without question embody the Daang Matuwid of the Aquino Administration than Congresswoman Robredo. With her as Secretary Roxas' Vice-President, the election come 2016 becomes a serious matter. Note: Congresswoman Robredo won the Vice-Presidential election by the second smallest margin in Philippine history - 263,473 votes.  The official  votes canvassed with Robredo garnering 14,418,817 votes while Marcos with 14,155,344 votes. The first smallest margin was between Fernando Lopez and Gerardo Roxas who were the main contenders for the Office of Vice-President of the Philippines in the general elections held on November 9, 1965. Lopez with 3,531,550 votes, with a plurality of 26,724 votes over his closest opponent, Gerardo M. Roxas, with 3,504,826 votes. This has been a subject of an...

The recently concluded election of the SK Municipal/City Federations was a blatant corruption of the idealism of the Filipino youth. The otherwise naive and idealistic minds were initiated in the ways of the corrupt and unscrupulous leaders and elders. SK Chairmen and their parents were given thousands of pesos and other gifts like cellphones and motorcycles in exchange for their votes. Is this the way to go for the so called hope of our fatherland ? If so, then WE are LOSING our hope. For a price. What lessons did our young people learned from the exercise of the right of suffrage? Arrogance. Buy votes in order to get elected . And have the privilege of prefixing one's name with the title Honorable. What sheer mockery. Only in the Philippines do we call people buying votes as honorable people. I once overheard a radio commentator suggest adding " having the capacity to buy votes" in the qualifications of candidates and changing election to bidding . Anyway, that is...