Politics

(Dapat sana sa isa pang multiply blog ko to ipopost pero wala namang makakabasa if ever. So there.)

Hindi kasi ako naniniwala sa Manila Kule tungkol sa theory ng sec gen ng AK kung bakit bumagsak ang percentage of voters ng CM. Well, una, AK naman siya at wala naman talagang masama kung maging biased siya. Yun naman ata ang point kapag may partido ka. Kapag dumating na sa point na kahit within parties eh magkakaiba ng sinusulong yung mga miyembro ng partido, na parang Philippine politics lang, ibig sabihin dapat nang sunugin ang student councils ng UP.

Pero para kasi sakin, nag-assume lang siya. Hello, biased naman siguro masyado ang opinion na "walang nahanap (ang CM students) na alternative kahit sa AK" kaya hindi na lang sila bumoto altogether. Well, you can correct me if I'm wrong at may data talaga to. Haha.

Pero para kasi sakin, AT OPINYION KO LANG TO AT THEORY KO LANG (kasi tinatamad pa ko magsimula magsulat ng letters para sa kung sinu-sino at magresearch. haha.), base sa observations ko bilang part ng College Electoral Board, the biggest reason why the voter turn out was high last year and why it was low this year had nothing to do with the USC elections AT ALL. It was all about affiliations and the MSC elections.

One, both Gawaran and Guinto who ran this year and last year are both unaffiliated.

Two, last year, one affiliated student from CM ran for councilor. This year, only Guadalupe and Fernandez, both unaffiliated (though rumors came about during campaign period that Fernandez is affiliated outside of CM), ran for councilor.

Three, and the most important of all, last year, may kalaban ang mga tumakbo sa MSC. This year, wala.

Last year's elections was phenomenal since it became a very tight race for the positions of presidency and vice presidency - with one fraternity and sorority voting for two candidates and the another fraternity and sorority voting for the other two candidates. I swear, people rushed to the voting precincts not to really vote for people in the USC, but to vote for someone in the MSC in which they were affiliated. And then they would grab the paper for the USC elections, ask us who the med students there were and then vote for them.

I believe it was the fact that people running for positions in the MSC last year, aside from the fact that they were affiliated somehow, had an opponent made more people vote. There was also that question of who you'd prefer. Even if you're unaffiliated, I guess that fact that you can actually choose someone made people more interested, or at least, made them vote.

In this year's elections, all the candidates had no opponents. This took away that "affiliation game" and, for those unaffiliated, that interest to choose someone. After all, even if you vote or not, someone sure will and that would surely be enough for the lone candidate to win.

That also significantly decreased the number of votes from the CM, thus proving to be a big disadvantage to Gawaran who lost by only 83 votes. That's just 8% of the CM population. Imagine if last year's voter turnout (which was 73.93%) - or even if last last year's voter turnout (64%) - happened this year (only 48.14%). Then this whole election thing could have been a different story altogether.

P.S. I don't have any party. And I also acknowledge the fact that there can be other reasons aside from this and that the voter turnout is entirely multi-factorial. Again, just an opinion and a point of view.

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I'm voting for Dick Gordon. You should too. At least, he's the only one credible enough to vote for. At least, he knows the issues and KNOWS HOW TO ACT ON THEM. And he can do a great job.

Think of him as the Raul Roco of this elections - the one you should have voted for, the one you would have voted for, and the one you didn't vote for because you were scared that Fernando Poe would win the elections so you opted for GMA instead (which was hell wrong, btw), and vice-versa. Haha.

Other than that, there are two reasons why voting for him is like the most obvious thing ever:

One, if he wins, the we actually succeeded into putting the right president! And we can expect a hell of a better administration than GMA who managed to destroy the country in nine years. And we can expect action, not altogether drastic change, but a move forward. A MOVE FORWARD FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!! And my nationalism would go back. Yours too probably. :)

Two, if he looses, well, then you're not gonna be one to blame for the next administration. At least, you would be able to hold your head up high and say: Damn you fellow countrymen! I voted for the right one! You didn't! And then you'd have sufficient reason why you can leave the Philippines. Who wouldn't want that? Haha.

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Isang malaking boo sa UP BOR!!!
Put Gonzales back to the Director post of PGH!!

Masyado nang nawalan ang masang Pilipino dahil sa paulit-ulit na pangungurakot ng mga may kayang mangurakot. Pati ba naman PGH? Kalusugan na lang, ipagkakait niyo pa? And for what? For the sake of money??

Katalinuhan at kagalingan na lang ng mga doktor na wiling tumulong sa mga mahihirap, pagsasamantalahan pa. Tsktsk.

(I still believe that the SR still had some degree of resposibility why all this happening though. If only that CRSRS was ammended and a policy for choosing students in good standing was placed, harrassments like this to the office of the SR would never occur. At least, mahihirapan ang admin na ipitin ang SR kung nagpapakamabuting studyante siya. boo.)