IS there no magnanimity, decency, or benevolence or honor between and among our local politicians after the elections?

Is there nothing more that our young can learn from our elder politicians, that after all the fun distributions of ayuda, obvious exchanges of black propaganda in social media that they can still work together?

But in Urdaneta City and Sual town, a new post-election contentious issue is punishing their electorate.  Can one who was suspended before the elections hold office and be allowed to serve his/her mandate?

But, on what moral authority can candidates who lost the same electoral post insist on occupying the same post without a mandate? By invoking the disqualification of the winner by a mere suspension order would be the worst cheap trick that any politician worth his salt wants to be remembered as the one who stole the mandate of his/her opponent with a suspension order!

And on what moral ground can the acting-winner-by-suspension stand on to convince their constituents, knowing they were never elected?

It’s the same story when the suspended elected officials during or before the elections and lost and refuses to turn over the reins of government, insisting that they were not given due process.

Be that as it may, there will always be legal jurisprudence and correct legal arguments to support their rights to take the posts without the mandate, but the political motivation can only be suspect.

It’s no secret that filing of suspension charges for the smallest administrative violations has become a fallback position for those who are unsure of their win at the precinct levels. (Pang-sigurado lang!)

So, whatever happened to “Congratulations!!”,  “Good Luck!!”,  “We wish you well!”, “We all had a good run, didn’t we?”

They should pick up where they left off with their pledges of unity before the elections.

Besides, if there is anyone in the world who understands fully well where political power leads at any time, it is not with the new winner. There is a temporary shift of power by a fickle electorate soon.

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