That’s democracy? FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 05/03/2010

That’s democracy?

FRONTLINE

Ninez Cacho-Olivares

05/03/2010
In his Sunday column, With Due Respect, former Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban wrote that one of the ways to fight, or at least minimize a no-proclamation situation that could occur owing to a possibility of a Gloria holdover presidency or the emergence of military rule is to ensure that the presidential victor wins by a landslide. That way, he says, there will be no questions over the elections which will then be deemed credible, despite electoral fraud, and the presidential victor is proclaimed.

“Hence, let us vote for the presidential candidate with the best chances of winning, even if he...may not be our first choice, so that the margin of victory would be so overwhelming that glitches here and there would not matter. A huge landslide will also wipe out the effects of cheating and manipulation.”

Then he says that since a “horrendous landslide” is necessary, the electorate should therefore vote for the “presidential candidate with the best chances of winning, even if he ...may not be our first choice, so that the margin of victory would be so overwhelming that glitches here and there would not matter. A huge landslide will also wipe out the effects of cheating and manipulation.... MORE  

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100503com2.html