Kapanalig, 18,271 positions sa pamahalaan ang pag-aagawan at paglalabanan ng mga kandidatong tatakbo sa 2025 Midterm elections na itinakda ng Commission on Elections (COMELEC) sa ika-12 ng Mayo 2025.
Kinabibilangan ito ng 12-bagong Senador, 254 congressional district representatives; 63 party-list representatives;82-governors; 82 vice governors; 792 provincial board members;149 city mayors, city vice mayors.
1,582 city councilors, 1,493 town mayors; 1,493 town vice mayors; 11,948 town councilors;32 members of parliament of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) at 40 BARMM party list representatives.
Itinakda ng COMELEC sa October 1 hanggang October 8, 2024 ang “Filing of Certificate of Candidacy, Certificate of Nomination and Acceptance, and PL CON-CAN”.
Kapanalig, asahan na natin na sila-sila na naman ang mga kandidato…kabilang sila sa “political dynasty”, mga magkakapatid, mga magkakamag-anak, mga magkakapamilya. Isama na natin ang mga “political elite”, mga artista, mga TRAPO..Kung wala ng government slot, gagamitin ng sinasabing mga “political elite” ang Partylist system ng bansa.. Sila daw ay mga representante ng marginalized sector… Nakakalungkot na ang politika ay nagiging “multi-bilyong pisong business industry na sa Pilipinas.
Maging tagapagligtas ba natin ang mahahalal na 18,271 public officials o sila ang lalung magpapahirap sa ating mga Pilipino?
Sa encyclical letter na Fratelli Tutti, inamin ni Pope Francis “for many people today, politics is a distasteful word” (176). Corruption, poor governance, and seemingly hopeless division have led to a high degree of cynicism toward political leaders in many countries. On the contrary, he considers politics a noble profession, but only if leaders practice it “out of a tender care for others” (194). Politicians have a unique opportunity: they can help individuals, yes, but they also have the power to create the very conditions by which people can flourish, which has a much larger impact. Politics has fallen into disrepute because individualism and an unhealthy populism have corrupted it. What we need, says Francis, is “a better kind of politics, one truly at the service of the common good” (154). Ano ang ibig sabihin ni Pope Francis sa “better kind of politics”? Sa “Parable of the Good Samaritan”, The parable reminds us how easy it is to avoid the suffering of others by looking the other way. National boundaries do not matter to the Samaritan, who comes from a nation deeply at odds with that of the Jewish victim. The discomfort of the badly wounded man does not disgust him or cause him to retreat into a “comfortable isolation” as it does the priest and the Levite (68). Neither does he pass judgment on the social position of the victim; he sees only a human being who needs help.
Kapanalig, tayong mamamayan lalu na ang mga lider ng bansa na maging Good Samaritan.
Sumainyo ang Katotohanan.
