Self-dealing of senators must be checked

WE join Buhay Party List Rep. Lito Atienza in calling attention to the anomalous situation, where a sitting senator can repeatedly run for election to a higher office, and yet return to the Senate once he or she is beaten in a free and fair balloting.

We have seen this phenomenon several times over the past decade. And we will see it repeated this coming 2016 election, unless we stop the practice at the ballot box and unless Congress passes a law stopping it.