There is an INC vote. But it is INComplete.
According to the Inquirer’s May 7 “In the Know,” a total of 2.25 million Filipinos were members of Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) in 2010, and 1.37 million of them were of voting-age. We can only ask the question: “How many INC members do not blindly follow the ‘command votes’ of their officials?”
Compared to Catholic Filipinos, the same question may be asked: “How many baptized Catholics are voting for candidates the bishops and priests are endorsing?”
Another question: How do you rate the quality of the candidates the INC and Roman Catholic hierarchies are endorsing?
That is why you could sense that endorsing candidates is like “bulungan sa Malabon, pataasan ng presyo sa isda.” Intelligent INC voters despise this system.
Some of our candidates and voters are not intelligent (in Tagalog, “bobo’). Based on the above statistics you can infer that the INC vote is not a winning factor, and that it is the practice of the INC to endorse candidates based on surveys conducted by Social Weather Stations and Pulse Asia one week before the elections.
—ISIDRO C. VALENCIA,
Taguig City,
elcidvalencia60@gmail.com