Writing this while I’m waiting for our Grab food to arrive. Yes, sa dami ng tasks that I need to do today, I preferred Grab delivery food if that’s the thing that will keep me sane. And while I have time to muni-muni, I thought I’ll spend some time to write my opinion about the recent elections. Some of the candidates I voted won, some did not. And ang konti lang ng binoto ko, I wasn’t able to completely mark the full roster. Why?
One, I don’t know many of the candidates. Most of them the candidates name, ngayon ko lang nabasa. And for me, that’s one of the main problems in the Philippine elections. Yun lang mg nakaupo ang usually mag-eeffort na ipakilala ang sarili nila, or maybe not necessarily ipakilala, but to spend budget in exposing themselves to be seen by people. And of course, the budget will come from our taxes but what can we expect, they have the power and the opportunity.
The newbies or the ones who are running for the first time, who might be better leaders in the future, unfortunately didn’t have the budget to pay for advertisements, or campaign managers who could have helped them.
But one thing I really noticed is the lack of portfolios of these candidates. As in, I tried searching for a good website that contains enough information about the candidates. Rappler is the only website I think that contains a little bit of information when I tried to search for Vico Sotto. Or maybe Cong. Marcoleta whose authored bills are in congress.gov.ph but still I find these sources lacking. Some of the candidates I’ve seen in the mock list I got from the barangay, I couldn’t even find their names online.
For citizens like me who rely information from the internet because we rarely go out or interact with these politicians, sana man lang may online platform who can collect or organize all information about elected officials, yung honest, transparent, and updated. This can easily be a bank of information where they can add everything they have done during their service, their educational background and their platforms if they have some.
Sabi ko nga, if ever there will be a candidate who will author or create that kind of platform, iboboto ko talaga sya.
