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Debates can spur ‘principled vote’ — election watchdog

Posted by: Vinia D. Mukherjee | March 12, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Filed under: 2007 Elections

THE Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) expressed confidence that the debates among senatorial candidates will stimulate education among the voters while extracting accountability from aspirants.

“We want to influence voters on whom to vote for based on the stand of the candidates on issues relevant to their lives, our country, and our democracy,” Tita De Villa, PPCRV chair, told ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC). At the same time, De Villa said, the public can use a Covenant — which participants will sign after each debate — to check whether or not the politicians will stand by what they promised, once elected.

The debates — co-sponsored by PPCRV, the Commission on Elections, and ANC — kicks off at 6 this afternoon with an episode on Charter change. Team Unity’s Edgardo Angara, Genuine Opposition’s Francis Escudero, and Kilusang Bagong Lipunan’s Oliver Lozano, will argue on the question of amending the 1987 Constitution “in three years’ time, and in what manner.”

“While the candidates debate on the issues,” De Villa said, “the voters themselves are forced to make a stand.” Then the vote becomes “principled” and not based on personalities, she said.

The questions for the debates — scheduled for every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for four weeks — include the following:

The government is adequately addressing the problem of graft and corruption. Agree or disagree?

Is government addressing poverty adequately?

Are you in favor of a selective or total logging ban?

Is it necessary to curtail some of our civil liberties to fight terrorism?

The government should deregulate the importation of foreign drugs to provide Filipinos access to more affordable medicines.

I am for or against the legalization of jueteng.

There will also be debates on foreign policy and peace in Mindanao, according to De Villa.

“We want specific answers to these specific questions,” De Villa said. “Not motherhood statements. For how can we hold them accountable on motherhood statements?”

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[...] “We want to influence voters on whom to vote for based on the stand of the candidates on issues relevant to their lives, our country, and our democracy,” Tita De Villa, PPCRV chair, told ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC). At the same time, De Villa said, the public can use a Covenant — which participants will sign after each debate — to check whether or not the politicians will stand by what they promised, once elected. (More on Inside PCIJ) [...]

Debates can spur ‘principled vote’ — election watchdog « Get Involved: Exercise Your Right to Vote wrote on March 12, 2007 - 6:57 pm | Visit Link

Honestly, people should be educated with the senatoriables. Wit this kind of movement from the media and PPCRV, people would learn how their bets think the other way around not only the way they act in front of cameras on their campaign ads.

fjordz wrote on March 23, 2007 - 3:25 pm | Visit Link