A ghetto for parties with programs?
An explanation is required concerning last week’s column and, more particularly, its table. This, you may recall, detailed the fortunes of the left parties in the party-list elections since 2004. There were, however, five errors in the table, presumably the result of a technical glitch occurring somewhere along the stretch of road between my e-mail attachment and the published paper. Four of the errors occurred in the 2004 column, where the figures for the ranking of Anak ng Bayan, Suara Bangsamoro, Migrante and Akbayan were duplicated in the column giving the votes of those parties. Thus, for example, the vote for Akbayan, which came in at number 3 in 2004, was shown not as 852,473, but 852,4733. Probably, most readers had been able to work out what had happened. This may not have been the case, however, with the 2010 column, where the Anak Pawis vote was shown as 45,628 instead of 445,628, the first four having migrated to the column on the left. Last week’s column suggested that the fact the left has ended up with nine party-list seats out of a final total of 57 (the final results are still, at the time of writing, to be announced), might be the subject of sober reflection. There will probably be reflection anyway. The Makabayan group’s decision to field Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza as guest senatorial candidates on Manny Villar’s Nacionalista ticket will, presumably, be hotly debated on a number of grounds, including the disappointing (for both Villar and them) results, and the controversies which emerged during Villar’s campaign and provoked visible discomfort in Ocampo.... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100706com6.html |
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