Barangay and SK Election should be non-partisan...Almonte

By PJTremedal, BND MisOC-CIB/OCM

Oroquieta City – “This coming October 25, 2010 will be the election for our Barangay Officials and the youth sector thru the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) and this should be a non-partisan politics”, says City Mayor Jason Almonte.

Almonte who runs for the Lakas-Kampi-CMD and won the mayoral candidacy farther reiterated that people must realized that even the barangay is the smallest unit of this government, it doesn’t mean that, in choosing the officials that will run the Barangay will win because of moneyed politics.

The barangay constitute the frontline leadership of the government, it is the peoples strength and every local governance must relates its action, programs, projects and development plans to reach its goals as government for the people, by the people and with the people.

Oroquieta City is composed of 47 barangays, with more or less 49,000 thousand registered voters excluding the new registrants to include the SK’s before the October 25 election.

However, every barangay officials who chooses to run because of the assurance of every chief executives of the locality tends to circumvent COMELEC rules and regulation in order to win and stick with his political inclination and partnership in running the barangay.

Since time immemorial, Barangay Election, even the law says that it is non-partisan, Barangay candidates always go to their political leaders and ask support financially or otherwise because during regular elections this barangays are also used and usually the strength of every political parties in order to win the elections.

So to make it more comfortable, Government leaders usually advocates non-partisan elections, however, in the country it is not so, even election related incidents happens right in every barangay, men of politics always with their sides for political power even after elections.

Non-partisan barangay elections is a misnomer for those who are greed of power but for those wants who good governance, leaders of men would only say, may the best man wins.