We will be watching you! | Inquirer Opinion

We will be watching you!

/ 05:02 AM May 23, 2019

Now that he’s got full control of the Senate and the House of Representatives plus the Supreme Court, President Duterte has no more excuse not to deliver on his many campaign promises.

The pressure is on his two sidekicks (who obviously got elected only on account of their patron’s endorsement and massive spending to generate maximum name recall from the less discriminating voters) to perform their new role as legislators.

While it’s  almost nauseating to see unqualified and unsavory characters making it to the Top 12 while brilliant candidates who could have contributed much good to the Senate and to the country fell on the wayside, we have to move forward.

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To all those who made it to the Top 12, we will be watching you! As for the “Magnificent 8,” they did their best with the limited resources they had and should be able to build on what they’ve started for 2022.

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The priority is to connect with the 30 percent of the registered voters who did not participate and get them to join the next electoral exercise.

They also have to keep on providing a voice for the majority of the Filipinos, especially the marginalized sector, and to act as the defender for those bullied by this administration for simply exercising their inherent right to dissent.

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The Commission on Elections should investigate those who have violated the rules on ad spending. If they do their job properly, the final composition of the Top 12 will surely change.

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God bless the Philippines!

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ED DAMES,

San Lorenzo Village, Makati City

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TAGS: 18th Congress, 2019 elections, 2019 senatorial candidates, Ed Dames, Inquirer letters, Rodrigo Duterte

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