The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) has expressed its support to the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) anti-vote buying and selling committee ahead of the upcoming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (BSK) polls. The poll body’s “Kontra Bigay” committee is significant towards ending long-time practice of vote buying and selling…
The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting has expressed its support to the Commission on Elections’ anti-vote buying and selling committee ahead of the upcoming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan polls.
“Vote buying has always been part of our elections. It is a welcome development that the Comelec has officially acknowledged that it is a problem and they have to do something to discourage the practice,” said Singson in a Radio Veritas report. “Quite apart from poverty that entices people to sell their votes, we need to convince our voters of the value of their votes and their responsibility to choose competent and well-meaning leaders who will govern rightly to benefit them and the country,” she said.
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