Transparency-accountability of outgoing-incoming WHETHER reelectionists won or lost in every election, local governments are expected to calibrate their governance to ensure transparency and accountability. If they won, they are expected to oversee the transition and turnover of duties, responsibilities and programs of officials mandated to vacate their offices to ensure…

It’s not too late PERHAPS it can be said that one of the factors why Filipinos as a nation and as communities have difficulty being united in purpose is because we are overly emotional about many issues, particularly elections that we hold every three years. In fact, we recall that…

Act for clean, honest election TOMORROW, May 13, will be the Filipino citizens’ day. It’s the day of fulfillment of the promise of the Constitution – freedom to exercise the right of suffrage. While there are no changes in the form of exercise, a lot of changes have since taken…

We’d like to believe… AFTER all the strategizing, trolling on social media, vote-buying, arm-twisting, black ops by candidates to get elected, it is not farfetched to believe that today’s voters already fully realize that they hold the future development of their community in their hands.   We’d like to believe…

The homestretch THE political campaign is in the homestretch. As we have seen the past decades, it’s that time when kid gloves are off, vote-buying is rampant, civility is thrown out the window, laws and rules are flouted like they never existed, emotions are high, shrewd partisanship begets violence. Blood…