Voters' distrust for GMA, her officials should be transformed into vigilance during May polls to safeguard votes, election returns from fraud
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Voters' distrust for GMA, her officials should be transformed into vigilance during May polls to safeguard votes, election returns from fraud
Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today said that Pulse Asia's recent survey results revealing the public's low level of trust for key officials and supporters of the Arroyo administration were not surprising. President Arroyo and former President Fidel Ramos have public distrust ratings of 41 and 43 percent, respectively. Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr and Comelec chairman Benjamin Abalos also have low trust ratings.
"Many Filipinos have become cynical when it comes to the government and its officials, especially in the last six years under Macapagal-Arroyo. Official government pronouncements such as those declaring a state of national recovery for the economy are received with indifference because Filipinos neither see nor experience any improvement in their economic lives. As for the peace and order situation, it continues to worsen in the same way that the human rights situation also deteriorates. The government itself does not give Filipinos any reason to trust it, much less have faith in it," he said.
Beltran said that the May polls draw closer, Filipinos will be even more cynical of the chances of the elections being a genuinely democratic exercise practiced and implemented with honesty and credibility.
"As more surveys revealing the public's sentiment against the Arroyo government, its officials and its candidates are released, the greater the pressure is on the administration to cheat and rig the elections. We hope that this strong distrust for the government and key officials will push more Filipinos to be watchful and vigilant by guarding the polls, from the actual process, to the canvassing, and the turnover of the election results to the Comelec."
"It's already impossible for the Macapagal-Arroyo administration to win back the trust of majority of Filipinos. It has completely lost all credibility when Pres. Arroyo herself was exposed of rigging the results of the presidential elections in 2004. The election season has refreshed voters' memory of the 'Hello, Garci' scandal and Arroyo's Team Unity is also tainted. The only way that Team Unity can score a clean and honest victory is if there were no other candidates running against its slate and people has no alternative," he said.
Voters' distrust for GMA, her officials should be transformed into vigilance during May polls to safeguard votes, election returns from fraud
Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today said that Pulse Asia's recent survey results revealing the public's low level of trust for key officials and supporters of the Arroyo administration were not surprising. President Arroyo and former President Fidel Ramos have public distrust ratings of 41 and 43 percent, respectively. Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr and Comelec chairman Benjamin Abalos also have low trust ratings.
"Many Filipinos have become cynical when it comes to the government and its officials, especially in the last six years under Macapagal-Arroyo. Official government pronouncements such as those declaring a state of national recovery for the economy are received with indifference because Filipinos neither see nor experience any improvement in their economic lives. As for the peace and order situation, it continues to worsen in the same way that the human rights situation also deteriorates. The government itself does not give Filipinos any reason to trust it, much less have faith in it," he said.
Beltran said that the May polls draw closer, Filipinos will be even more cynical of the chances of the elections being a genuinely democratic exercise practiced and implemented with honesty and credibility.
"As more surveys revealing the public's sentiment against the Arroyo government, its officials and its candidates are released, the greater the pressure is on the administration to cheat and rig the elections. We hope that this strong distrust for the government and key officials will push more Filipinos to be watchful and vigilant by guarding the polls, from the actual process, to the canvassing, and the turnover of the election results to the Comelec."
"It's already impossible for the Macapagal-Arroyo administration to win back the trust of majority of Filipinos. It has completely lost all credibility when Pres. Arroyo herself was exposed of rigging the results of the presidential elections in 2004. The election season has refreshed voters' memory of the 'Hello, Garci' scandal and Arroyo's Team Unity is also tainted. The only way that Team Unity can score a clean and honest victory is if there were no other candidates running against its slate and people has no alternative," he said.
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