We beg to differ.
We are under a fascist, authoritarian dictatorship. This is the impression you get after reading Boo Chanco’s PhilSTAR column “Hearts and minds” today. This is the second in a row about what the opposition must do in order to win in 2022. Chanco quotes from an article published by a millennial PhD candidate Cleve Arguelles:…
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was known to common Filipinos when he made the announcement about a possible Presidential run back in 2016. His “speaking tour” about federalism was actually a listening tour. He wanted to get first-hand information on the people’s gripes. More important back then, the public had had it with then President Noynoy…
The circus is back in town. The political circus that is. Virus or no virus. The situation is different from the last Presidential election cycle. There is not much jockeying for the anointment because there are only few candidates and the outgoing President is not from the “silent majority.” In short, it is not like…
Election fever in the Philippines is slowly heating up. Early opinion polls suggest that Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, daughter of President Rodrigo Duterte, is the leading possible candidate for President in 2022. “Inday Sara,” as the lady mayor is widely known, is, so far, enjoying a comfortable lead over her potential opponents, including Vice…
It is clear that the most influential “thought leaders” of the Philippine Opposition still fail to truly understand why they are in the predicament they are today. With just a week to go until the much-hyped June 12 announcement of the candidates 1Sambayan will be endorsing and just 11 months to go before the election…
Political scientists should be objective and pragmatic. If you dump both and pick a side, then you’re not a scientist anymore because your analysis is not based on evidence. A breath of fresh air is Cleve V Arguelles’s East Asia Forum piece “Can a new Philippine ‘popular front’ defeat Dutertismo?” where he ponders the question…
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June 12 may be just eight days Way but it may as well be six months from now. In just the last ten days since dominant Opposition coalition 1Sambayan announced its plan to announce its candidates on what some people believe to be the Philippines’ “Independence Day”, Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte has pretty…
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To be sure, former Davao City Mayor and now President Rodrigo Roa Duterte wasn’t the first local government executive to have risen to national prominence through a presidential bid. But I guess his win in 2016 may be written down by some as a turning point in our history of elections when people began looking…