Of Cheating and Holding on to Principles

Coming from a bloodline of politicians on both maternal and paternal sides, I'm quite sure (and nervous too) that my kith and kin support systems would raise an eyebrow to the things I am about to blubber on this entry.




It's been jurassic years since I last wrote an Editorial about recent politics brouhaha and I'd like to believe that this one isn't tad close to an editorial but since I am rambling on current events, I'd like to say this is as close to what I used to write for both my intermediate and secondary School Publications years ago.

With the way I've been running my life for the past six months now, I really don't have the luxury of laying eyes and lending ears to the telly these days. And then, there's Senator Migz Zubiri making history as the first ever elected senator of RP to resign from his position. With news as whopping whoa as that, who was I not to be aware of it?

So like being hooked to the episodes of 100 Days to Heaven, I had to leave my laptop and the articles I was working on to watch and listen to the news.

As it turns out, Senator Zubiri was said to have benefited from the untrustworthy results of the 2007 National Elections. With that, I asked myself, Has there been a time when the results of an election were worthy enough of our trust? Well, I bet the kind of elections honestly done are those elections in grade school - after all, you just raise your hand and voila, you're the president, you're the VP and you know how it goes. But what have we to say about our real, National Elections?

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photo courtesy of Ang Bag-ong Balatukan

Politics is such a dirty game and coming from someone who has witnessed a fair share of election campaigns, rallies and the seemingly customary threats and brutalities, you have to believe me on that.

Sure as hell, there's cheating in every election and to say that the cheating incident allegedly involving Sen. Zubiri is the most up front, I can't be sure enough.

Resigning from his position out of principles and protecting his family's dignity, does that exempt him from being investigated further? If he indeed had a tight grip on his principles, why did he opted to be seated in position when he knew there were unreliable vote counts in the first place?

With one position available in the Senate now, is it justifiable and constitutionally acceptable to let Koko Pimentel take over the vacant position? If so, wouldn't it feel like donning on an old and outgrown shoes from his opponent?

As to what the answers to these questions are, we can never tell.

As to whether the answers will come honestly, we can't be sure.

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