Election in the Philippines
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Every election time in our country, the honesty of the Filipinos is in catastrophe. Every politician claims to be pure and worthy of the peoples’ trust. They point one another as corrupt to win the sympathy of the voters. When the election is over, there is always a cheating protest of the candidates who think they won and cheated.
On May 13, 2013 and on Oct 28 of the same year were the local and national and the barangay elections. Candidates were too busy for the campaign. They tried hard to win in the position they aim at. Because of trying hard, they disobeyed the rules even a very simple rule which was NO VOTE BUYING was not followed.
And not only here in Davao Oriental, but many places in the Philippines. Many of us allowed dishonesty even to ourselves. We accepted money from the candidates and vote for them even our conscience is against it. Many took advantage in having extra income during election without thinking of the consequences of their actions.
Because of crisis, it doesn’t matter for them to know if the candidate they had voted for was responsible to handle the position. They were happy accepting grocery items in exchange of their sacred vote which is supposed to be given to the one who is really service oriented who thinks nothing but the good of everyone. They don’t realize that it’s just for a day for a moment of their happiness. They didn’t also analyze that if that candidate won, they would suffer for a long time because of greed and selfishness.
Filipinos don’t learn from the lessons in the past. Whenever there is election, the same thing is done over and over again. Vote buying, destroying ones reputation, dishonor another. What else is new? If all these are absent in our country’s election, you may ask, is this Philippines?
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On May 13, 2013 and on Oct 28 of the same year were the local and national and the barangay elections. Candidates were too busy for the campaign. They tried hard to win in the position they aim at. Because of trying hard, they disobeyed the rules even a very simple rule which was NO VOTE BUYING was not followed.
And not only here in Davao Oriental, but many places in the Philippines. Many of us allowed dishonesty even to ourselves. We accepted money from the candidates and vote for them even our conscience is against it. Many took advantage in having extra income during election without thinking of the consequences of their actions.
Because of crisis, it doesn’t matter for them to know if the candidate they had voted for was responsible to handle the position. They were happy accepting grocery items in exchange of their sacred vote which is supposed to be given to the one who is really service oriented who thinks nothing but the good of everyone. They don’t realize that it’s just for a day for a moment of their happiness. They didn’t also analyze that if that candidate won, they would suffer for a long time because of greed and selfishness.
Filipinos don’t learn from the lessons in the past. Whenever there is election, the same thing is done over and over again. Vote buying, destroying ones reputation, dishonor another. What else is new? If all these are absent in our country’s election, you may ask, is this Philippines?
By: Krisiah Laguidong
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