“Pro-Farmer, Filipino” – 2025 PH Voters Should Make Sure That Their Chosen Senatorial Candidates Are Concerned With The Poor Millions!

Here is friend Willie Villarama sending email 01:50 AM Saturday 05 Oct 2024 but I got it only this mid-morning Sunday 06 Oct – no problem. Delayed but not late. The subject of the 379-word message is “2025 Voters Education” (from me, from the original title):

“Voters Education For The CDE Economic Classes Hopefully With The Help Of The AB Groups.”
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Ha! With the current chatter & clutter, claims & counter-claims from candidates and non-candidates, the candidates will be voices in the wilderness – if they don’t explain themselves!

Says the pro-Filipino email:

The plan highlights the need for influential groups to pressure the 70 senatorial candidates to participate in a unique experiment. In this experiment, the candidates would submit their biodata along with their work experiences and a brief essay outlining their proposed solutions to various social issues such as injustice, corruption, poverty, lack of education, and poor health services. This initiative aims to educate voters and encourage transparency and accountability among the candidates.

How to select only 12 out of 70 candidates for senator! The pre-election campaign calls for would-be voters to ask candidates about their solutions to “injustice, corruption, poverty, lack of education, and poor health services.” Which means if the candidate wants more votes, s/he will have to publicly state in advance how s/he plans to address any problem by way of policy or program or both. If s/he doesn’t say anything about any of those problems, either s/he is ignorant or unconcerned – which automatically makes her/him a candidate to be ignored in the 2025 elections!

“The plan,” says the email, is to hold a nationwide voters’ education as well as mock elections “to enhance public awareness and engagement.”

How many to elect? Inquirer says (inquirer.net):

The elections, to be held 12 May 2025, with about 68 million voters to elect over 18,000 officials: 12 senators, 254 district representatives, 63 party-list representatives, and 17,942 governors, provincial board members, mayors, and councilors. The election will also cover parliamentary positions in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Repeat: “The plan highlights the need for influential groups to pressure the 70 senatorial candidates to participate in a unique experiment” – coming out with detailed plans to address injustice, corruption, poverty, lack of education, and poor health services.

Uniquely, I as a blogger will participate but not rely on (financial) help of the AB Groups – I will create a dedicated blog myself to help the 2025 elections become Pro-Farmer, Pro-Filipino. Uniquely, I will ask each of the 70 senatorial candidates one’s:

Vision of what is good for the Filipinos
Mission to help bring that Vision to reality
Strategy to fulfil that Mission.

First things first: The Vision will help determine the Mission that will determine the Strategy – not Strategy first or Mission first!

Last but not least: Why the “pro-farmer” special mention? Because there are 3,000,000 (3 million) poor Filipino farmers! If we don’t help them, who will? Right now, they don’t know how to help themselves.@517