I applaud the Inquirer for successfully forcing all of the Philippine presidential candidates to submit their concrete plans to address 10 entrenched issues facing our country. Seeing the positions, tone of voice, and priorities of each candidate side-by-side and published verbatim—in exactly the format in which the Inquirer received them—has been deeply helpful given our mainstream political discourse that far too often lacks specificity and substance. Moreover, for electoral and political systems that are too often premised on personality-politics, I thought it would be helpful to: dissect the agendas to see what we can lift from them to further a policy-based election discussion; and obscure, at first pass, the candidates’ names to neutralize the highly charged reactions the various camps have already primed in us. In this article, I take on the agendas for foreign policy, anonymizing and aggregating them to see what results.
Results:
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