Ampatuan Patriarch in Palawan
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
MGA PALAWAN POLITICAL DYNASTY SA PALAWAN
BUSINESS INTEREST OF POLITICAL DYNASTIES IN PALAWAN
Ampatuan of Puerto Princesa City
Ampatuan of San Vicente
THE DEMISE OF HAGEDORN POLITICAL CAREER !!!
ARTICLE FROM NEW YORK TIMES
IN THE PHILIPPINES, POLITICAL CLANS HOLD THEIR GROUND
MANILA:— For generations, a few famous and wealthy families have dominated politics in the Philippines, and early results of this month's elections indicate that they still do.
Across the country, political clans are winning in the national and local elections held on May 10. Reports and allegations of fraud and violence aimed at keeping voters at home and disrupting the vote count also indicate that their methods of holding onto power remain the same.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo herself is the head of a family that has been in politics since the 1950s, when her father was a legislator and then became president.
Arroyo is leading in the presidential race, with 5.89 million votes so far over her main rival, the actor Fernando Poe Jr., with 4.54 million votes. The early results are from a "quick count" being done by the independent National Citizen's Movement for Free Elections, representing 42 percent of the total votes cast. Final results are not expected until late May or early June.
Most of the top 15 candidates for Senate belong to political families with several members already in public office.
In the provinces, such families are still dominant. Among them are the heirs of the late President Ferdinand Marcos as well as his political allies, like the family of Eduardo Cojuangco, chairman of San Miguel Corp., the largest food and beverage company in the Philippines, and Juan Ponce Enrile, Marcos's former defense secretary, who looks likely to win another term as senator.
Political dynasties here became notorious for kowtowing during the Marcos years.
A recent study by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism found that two-thirds of the members of Congress are from political dynasties. The study traced the emergence of dynasties in the Philippines to the introduction by the Americans of electoral politics in the early 20th century, when voting was initially limited to property owners and the wealthy, who monopolized public office.
"Political dynasties are a terrible indictment of the kind of politics we have," said Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr., one of the few in the Senate who does not have relatives in public office. "I do not believe that any one family has the monopoly of talent to run government."
After the fall of Marcos, there were attempts to curtail political dynasties — for example, by limiting the number of family members who could run for office — but the efforts did not succeed in the legislature.
Encarnacion Teresa Tadem, director of the Third World Studies Center at the University of the Philippines, said change was imminent. "Many members of these dynasties are now better educated — they study at the universities and abroad. I am optimistic that when they go back to their provinces, they will inject some change," she said.
The large number of political clans is itself a factor that drives this change, Tadem added. "There is bound to be competition among the dynasties and that could translate into better public service," she said.
Some dynasties, however, have not quite gotten out of the old mold. One is the Dy dynasty, which has ruled the province of Isabela, in the northern Philippines, for more than 30 years. In this month's elections, the Dys were accused of fraud and violence in an effort to defeat Grace Padaca, a 40-year-old political neophyte and polio victim who looks likely to end the Dys's dominance.
Padaca decided to run for governor against one of the Dys because, she said, "people demanded change." She received strong support in her campaign from the public and civic and religious groups. It is perhaps not a coincidence that Padaca is single and childless.
"My constituents are confident," she said, "that I can never form my own political dynasty."
Labanan ang dynasty ng mgaa Hegedorn, hwag sila iboto
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