PEOPLE'S PRIMARIES - II

The People’s Primaries Pinoy Style seeks to achieve the following objectives:

Philosophy:
Sovereignty resides in the people, hence there must be congruence between the source of power (the people) and the leaders invested with the authority to exercise the power – to make laws, to govern and to choose persons to appointive positions in the bureaucracy.

Idea:
The representatives who exercise the sovereign power of the people must be produced by a process that allows broad-based participation by them.

Concept:
The primaries can be understood therefore as a GOAL, PROCESS and MEANS.

As a Goal:
Alleviate corruption in National and Local politics by raising and selecting God loving and Competent Non-Trapo public officials concerned with the common good and committed to the empowerment of the Filipino people to achieve progress.

As a Process:
A consultative mechanism consisting of:
• Development of the People’s Platform;
• Vetting, i.e. qualifying, nominating, endorsing, short-listing, and voting to produce the People’s Slate.
To be implemented by:
• Formal Mandating Body (Structure & System) “ People’s Coalition.
As a Means:
It is an organizational tool to arouse, mobilize, unite and organize people’s participation and involvement in effecting leadership change.

The Objectives
1. Mobilize 20% of the electorate per congressional district, particularly among the youth who registered as voters, to participate in the Primaries and later support the chosen candidates.

2. Unite reform minded organizations to work for the election of good, responsible, and reform oriented leaders, particularly at the highest levels of government.

3. Provide an environment and a structure for a political machinery to emerge, where various advocacies may be represented and become part of the platform of government to be adopted by the slate of candidates who will form the “ Peoples Dream Team “.

Requisite Conditions:
• Unified Peoples Agenda
• Unified Peoples Coalition
• Unified Leadership & Slate
• Adequate Resources and Cooperative Media