Editorial The May 13, 2019 midterm elections are just a few days away and the whole country is watching and waiting on the voting day...
The May 13, 2019 midterm elections are just a few days away and the whole country is watching and waiting on the voting day itself whether the whole process will be peaceful and credible and everybody is hoping it should be. Or we are in trouble.
The thing to watch out for by our security officials, the Phil. National Police, are the local political fights anywhere in the provinces, cities and municipalities of the entire nation as almost 60 million voters exercise their sovereign power on election day to choose their officials that will govern them for the next three years or until 2022.
The PNP must work in tandem with the Commission on Elections to focus on any declared election hot spots to prevent any unnecessary disturbances or worse, eruption of violence that would mar the election process and put a cloud of doubt to its outcome. It is at the local political level that passion and emotion run high and intense among supporters and blind believers of contending political candidates so that the Comelec and the PNP must be on their feet, ever alert as the day of reckoning draws near.
In Quezon province, the leadership of Police Director, Senior Supt. Ramil Montilla will be put to a test and at stake in the eyes of the voting public. The police must project the image of non-partisanship, of being on top of the situation to bring calm and maintain peace before, during and after the balloting which is the first political exercise under the administration of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte.
The local political candidates in Quezon province – from governor, congressman, board members, city and municipal mayors and vice mayors, and city and municipal councilors - must do well to restrain their followers and supporters and not excite them more to provoke any untoward actions that could mar the election process. There is more to life in the whole country after the May 13, 2019 elections.
