Hollow promises

On the first day of the legal campaign period, the Inquirer and this paper judged it worth relaying to readers on page 1 the warning against hollow promises made by candidates for public office.

Scoffing at the “promises of change” candidates keep making to the Filipino electorate, Robert Broadfoot, managing director of the Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) group, said “I don’t think there will be any change in the idiosyncrasies that define the Philippines.”