"What we observed is an invasion of the party-list system by elite interests representing political dynasties, big business and corrupt forces.." Partylist Watch said.
Catholic Church needs to help ‘deepen’ PH democracy, says analyst
Feb 28, 2021 10:30 PM PHT
Jezreel Ines
After defending democracy in EDSA exactly 35 years ago, the Catholic Church now needs to help deepen the Philippines’ gains from the People Power Revolution of 1986, an expert said.
“Defending is just a first step. Deepening is a different story, and that is the challenge to our church these days,” said Arjan Aguirre, political science professor from Ateneo de Manila University, in an online forum titled Usap-Usapang Kalayaan: Conversations on Freedom” on Wednesday, February 24.
Aguirre said the church needs to be with the marginalized and mobilize people and institutions as it did in 1986.
Published on: Saturday, February 27, 2021
By: ABS CBN News
People line up at the Commission on Elections in Pasay City.
MANILA: Vote buying and the proliferation of fake news are expected to worsen in the 2022 national elections as the Philippines elects new leaders against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, a political science expert said.
Policies on keeping distance between individuals and other pandemic-related protocol during campaigns and election day push political operators to be “more subtle” in handing out bribes, Arjan Aguirre, a Political Science professor from the Ateneo de Manila University, said in an online forum.
“We are under this pandemic so people will still go out to vote, but the vote buying will be more subtle and more widespread,” he said.