It is strange to see Senator Manny Villar and Senator Loren Legarda running in the same party, but weirder still (and downright inappropriate) to find the likes of Satur Ocampo, Lisa Masa and Bongbong Marcos sharing the same stage as political running-mates. Politics, it seems, makes strange bedfellows.
Let me make it clear—I’m only referring to political parties like Lakas, Nationalist People Coalition (NPC) and the like, not those belonging to the party-list system. Isn’t a political party is supposed to be the coming together of likeminded individuals representing a political stand or a platform of governance. Ideologies are essentially what separate one party from another. Hence you have the Republican or conservatives and the Democrats or liberals in the US, or the leftists, moderates and rightists in multi-party states.
But is there such a dichotomy among political parties in the Philippines?
Count me among the many political observers in our country and elsewhere who have come to the conclusion that political parties in the Philippines do not epitomize what political parties ought to be. The political stand on key issues of one party from another is supposed to be at the heart of their distinctions. In our country, one party is really no different from the other.
thanks, Noems for the photo!
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