Too early to form senatorial slates

It’s still a year and a half before the 2019 mid-term elections, yet the major parties are now preoccupied with filling up their 12-person senatorial slates. It’s premature for a couple of reasons, and is nothing but a disservice, if not disrespect, to the Filipino electorate.

On Friday, House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez reportedly announced that Palace Communications Assistant Secretary Esther Margaux “Mocha” Uson (who is also a blogger and ex-dancer) and Palace spokesman Harry Roque will be drafted to the senatorial slate of the ruling PDP-Laban party in the 2019 mid-term elections.