The Next President of RP, who is it? Options

[MrBahaw]

I was just wondering this because I was reading about how pacquiao's fight supposedly delayed a coup d'etat. I know close to nothing about philippine politics(except that it's corrupt) but if the current president was ousted who would the people want as the next president??

This post has been edited by MrBahaw: Jan 25 2006, 02:36 AM

[MrBahaw]

ok guys I just remembered asking my parents how exactly senatores get elected. I didn't understand because in my head I kept thinking it was like how americans elect their senators. can someone here clearly explain how senators get elected please

oh and btw isn't pimentel an indian last name?

[oanari]

ok guys I just remembered asking my parents how exactly senatores get elected.  I didn't understand because in my head I kept thinking it was like how americans elect their senators.  can someone here clearly explain how senators get elected please  

oh and btw isn't pimentel an indian last name?

In the United States, senators get elected in their own respective state. For example, Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein were elected to the senate by the California voters. Only the California voters could elect them, they don't get elected from other states. United States has 50 states, so two senators from each state, makes it 100 senators.

In the Philippines, Senators get elected nationally, they get elected in their own respective province and region, and also get elected from other regions. There are 24 senators in the Philippine Senate. Senate-candidates from National Capital Region or other regions can be elected from other regions. (IMHO, this su*ks because once that senator in Metro Manila, for example, gets elected, he or she only cares about Metro Manila, those regions that voted for him or her are ignored).

Before Martial Law, I think Philippine senators were elected in their own respective regions. Philippines used to have 12 regions with 2 senators in every region, that's why there's 24 senators in the Philippine Senate. However, when the Cory Constitution was passed by some stupid politicians in 1987, they didn't think about bringing back the 1935 Constitution, which is patterned after the U.S. Constitution. They didn't think about giving every region at least 2 senators that would represent their region in the higher chamber of congress. Pag ganito, balanse lahat, walang problema. So now, there are regions that don't have its own representative in the Senate, and ARMM is one of them. This is one of the reason kung bakit ang mga Filipino Muslims are feeling left out, dahil wala silang tagapagsalita sa Senado. Majority of the Senators right now are either from Central Luzon, National Capital Region and Calabarzon Region IV-A.

There are 12 Senators right now and their term end in 2007. Some of them would seek re-election, and I'm sure there will be a lot of politicians who want to be elected in the Senate. And the 12 candidates that get the highest votes will fill that 12 vacant seat in the senate. Those in the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th places would be using the vote buying tactics, dagdag-bawas, and they would send their "tutas" to Mindanao and other regions that have slow count to rig their votes in their favors. And then those 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, placers would be crying that they have been cheated.

Majority of the politicians cheated in every elections, the richer the candidates the more votes he or she gets because that candidate pays more.

This post has been edited by oanari: Feb 28 2006, 06:51 AM