Getting rid of political dynasties

WE are only too glad that both houses of Congress  are tackling bills that would raise revenues for the cash-strapped government and improve the investment climate in the country. One measure that deserves to be pushed by the Congress is Miriam Defensor Santiago’s Senate Bill 1904, which seeks to end so-called political dynasties in the country.

The bill would “professionalize politics so as to attract the best and the brightest in public service,” the senator had said. She further underscored the public’s long suffering at the hands of politicians “whose only credential for office is that their father or mother is the incumbent official in their town.”