And yet this is not the position of the Council. As far as the Council is concerned, elections remain the only known and viable democratic method of choosing the nation’s leaders. But these have to be clean, honest and credible elections, except that we have not shown the slightest competence to conduct such elections. For the longest time, we have been enacting and reenacting an electoral farce, which reached its lowest low in 2010 and 2013, when the Commission on Elections and Smartmatic illegally divested the precinct count optical scan voting machines of their safety features and accuracy mechanisms. The system has been thoroughly corrupted and debased, but Aquino has shown no interest in fixing it at all. Neither have the other politicians who daydream of succeeding PNoy. There are a number of them with oversize ambitions, but not a single one of them has had the courage to say they would not participate in any crooked election. Everyone is simply interested in controlling the cheating machine for their own ends. Only the Council is passionately interested in cleaning up the system so that the people’s vote, rather than the syndicate’s choice, will ultimately prevail.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:12:15 +0000
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