DAWNING OF THE POLITICIZED FILIPINO PEOPLE

What do the May 2010 elections reveal about the Filipino people's politics?

1. We are a patient lot when truly invigorated to do something for our country. These elections were important to us to insure that the present administration does not stay one more day in office after June 30, and hence, each vote counted a lot.

2. We are willing to share resources wherein our destiny is concerned. This is why we had seen people coming in droves, helping each other find their names in the voters' list just so everyone could vote.

3. The Catholic Church had seen the folly of dipping her hands directly into politics -- or choosing the candidates for the positions. They did not entirely endorse Kapatiran but instead allowed the laity to decide for themselves. Unfortunately, the people have this view of separation of Church and State and so did not vote for the K candidates.

4. The Filipino people are also liberal in terms of accommodating people of different colors to vie for positions, except that the experienced politicians have been able to lord it over at the polls. Independents hardly made a dent.

5. The Filipino people though are still not that tough to assert their right to choosing the people who should be the candidates. They did not question why the Comelec had to reject certain candidates and approve dubious ones like Acosta, who was later on proven to be unregistered but whose name was even printed in the ballots.

6. The Filipino people neither do not still question why only a few women could vie for the highest positions like those in the Senate and Congress.

Here then we shall see that the people could widen their political work and influence and question Comelec for its questionable decisions from the first step of accepting candidates down to the counting of the ballots truthfully.

I foresee the day that our patience shall be rewarded with a new set of Comelec Commissioners who shall be more prudent, humane and pro-Filipino people in the approval of candidates for the next elections. Then that day will truly be the dawning of the new politicized Filipino people.