This is my written speech for my final examination in my course subject : Speech Communication
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Political Dynasties! What about it?
This is one of the greatest challenges of our country today that have gripped Philippine politics. In many regions and provinces, the congressman, the governors and vice governors, even mayors and vice mayors, come from one and the same family. They even sometimes supported by private armies and powerful political machineries. This is the reason for much of the ills of our country today, such as dishonesty, incompetence, hunger, scarcity, lack of vitality, violence and. And this is against our constitution, right?
Section 26 of Article II of the 1987 Constitution reads, “The State shall guarantee equal access to opportunities for public service, and prohibit “Political Dynasties” as maybe defined by Law”.
But where is this equal assurance?It seems that, the allowing decree that will identify the limitation of the term “political dynasty” has been languishing and getting weaker in the archives of the House of Representatives for how many years, or even a decade now.
Can we expect and look forward to the present representatives that we have right now to sincerely permit and approve a law that may compromise their political profession in the near future? Of course not! Why? For the reason that most of the members of the House of Representatives, if not all, must have came from families of experienced political clans.
If we prolong to rest on this dominance of clans, there will be no end to the rule of people from the same families who have most of the money but do not necessarily have what it takes to make this country great.
Political dynasties have been dominated elections and governments in our country for generations now. Just consider, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s father, Diosdado Macapagal was the Philippine President in the year 1960s whose son is a congressman and another son is running for congressional post.
And even under former President Aquino, the foremost encouragement of the Cory Constitution, the Cojuanco, Zubiri, Fuentebella, and Aquino’s dynasties have flourished. So did the Estrada dynasty during and after Erap’s presidency and even Marcos Family.
According to the Center for People Empowerment in Governance, a Philippine nonprofit group, yet, there are an estimated 250 political families nationwide, with at least one in every province, occupying positions in all levels of the bureaucracy. Of the 265 members of Congress, 160 belong to clans.
I am not saying that I am against of dynasty but as these clans protect their reign, this era minimize the opportunities of proficient, young and promising underprivileged contenders to any of the government post, who have everything and the means to make this country enormous and more productive.
Experts say the dynasties have developed a sense of entitlement regarding public positions, while many ordinary Filipinos have come to accept the arrangement as predictable, making it harder to change the system.
The only way to break up these political dynasties fast is to disqualify and ban all present officeholders and their relatives, from mayor to president, from running for any workplace in the next elections. But that is not likely to happen, except under a revolutionary government. Let’s break this chain. Let’s help prevent political dynasties.
Thank You!
