WILL the coming elections bring us more of the same leaders that we have today? It looks like it. Note that each electoral district has a dynasty or a dynasty-in-the-making. Incidentally, these are not necessarily individual families, in tribal areas like Mindanao and the Cordillera, they are tribes.
Obviously these tendencies have been rankling the general public so much as to have a Constitutional provision against political dynasties in the 1987 Constitution, a provision that has been ignored or unsuccessful in being implemented for the lack of implementing rules. It is convenient to just ignore the need for putting them in place by those mandated to do so. In fact, it is also almost undoable with a legislature that has to come up with them when it itself is composed of dynasts and dynasty representatives.
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