SHOULD the Commission on Elections release the names of party-list nominees?
Philippine Daily Inquirer opinion columnist
Here's an excerpt from his column piece:
The Comelec is convincing in the abstract: Why, indeed, ask for names when the party-list is the antidote to the politics of personalities? Yet, the Comelec is downright crafty in the concrete: Can we trust Malacañang not to foist bogus party-list groups? When we have heard a Garci conspiring to fix the polls with that certain "Ma'am" with a distinctively raspy voice? When the canvas of the party-list votes is nationwide and is therefore most vulnerable to "dagdag-bawas" [vote-padding and vote-shaving], especially in Garci-land? Kilosbayan, Akbayan and Bantay Katarungan (and allow me here to disclose that I chair Bantay Katarungan) impugn the authenticity of the voices uttered by the dubious groups. The elections are so near, but we must not allow these fly-by-night groups to get away with it. One, we dilute our right to suffrage unless we vote knowingly. This isn't a card game where the trick is to hold the cards close to one's chest. This is a democratic election, for god's sake, not a poker table.
BABAE KA nominees are:
1. Rosalina Dagami. Nurse by profession and NGO worker.
2. Ruth Vasquez. Housewife, community organizer and religious leader.
3. Corazon Tumang. Entrepreneur and health advocate. She is a cancer patient.
But the question is not the list of nominees but the expenditures of these partylist organizations.
It seems some of them are millionaires. Akbayan spent 25Million during the 2004 campaign. Wow! That's even more than the congressional candidates spends in their districts.
The people have the right to know the credentials and character of the party list representative...for them to have an educated party list vote.
sa mga party list na nakaupo ngayon, tanong ko lang po, sa laki ng pork barrel na tinatanggap nyo na pera ng mamamayan ang pinanggalingan may mga proyekto ba kayo na nasumite sa congreso na pakikinabangan din ng taong bayan maliban sa mga walang kwentang welga na pinag gagagawa nyo at doon nyo lang pinagmumudmud ang pera namin.
25 Million that AKBAYAN spend raise more doubts on the true color of this organization.Where do they get these huge funding? Siguro my foregin funding sila .It maybe from China, Netherland,Russia or perhaps North Korea.
Are they suppose the declare the source of their funding? I guess they should.
If indeed they have foreign funding,my question is Where is their Loyalty?
Wala po sa Pilipinas, sa dayuhang din MAKA KALIWA. NO DIFFERENCE DI BA?
That why's LEFT and RIGHT are the same, they could not be trusted to represent the welfare of the madlang Pilipino.