Tomorrow, a new president and vice president will be declared almost a month after the actual election. This particular fact is a bit disconcerting. Two days shy of one month. That’s how long it took the fully-automated election to declare the new president and vice president. Silly of me to actually think that the candidates will just take everything sitting down and cut their losses. Filipinos never learn – “winners are cheaters and losers are the actual winners according to their own opinions.”
Here are more facts that show our never ending learning incapabilities:
- An incumbent president actually ran for a congressional seat and won!
- A famous boxer knocked out his opponent and is now known as Congressman Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao.
- An ousted former president ran again for president and was the strongest rival of the president-elect. We almost made world-wide headlines again if this president wanna-be actually won.
- Sympathy actually won President-elect Noynoy Aquino the much coveted seat.
- Sympathy was the downfall of supposed to be strongest presidential rival of Noynoy, Manny Villar. Noynoy’s mother paved his way to success while Villar’s mother was his downfall.
I have every faith in the Filipino people, we have shown our strength of heart to other countries again and again, Edsa 1, 2, 3 said it all. But as with everything, this so called people power revolution is getting a little stale. There were some rumors of President Gloria’s so-called plan to take over the congress as speaker of the house and change the constitution which might call for another Edsa, also if Aquino did not win, people will actually try for an Edsa 4. This is absolutely ridiculous and would definitely make us the world’s laughingstock. After everything, what now?
