EDITORIAL — We don’t need the “opposition”, we need the right people

Wanting what the Democrats delivered in the U.S. elections earlier this month when they grabbed both Congress and the Senate from the Republicans, a phenomenon now called the Blue Wave, former presidential spokesman Harry Roque said the supporters and followers of the Duterte family should give them similar results in 2028.

"Kung magkakaroon ng bagong Wave sa 2028, ito ang Green Wave. Alam ng taumbayan na ang tunay na oposisyon kay Marcos Jr. ayan ay ang mga Duterte," Roque said.

Well, that’s his opinion. But this coming 2028 elections we don’t really need what some people claim is the “opposition”, genuine or not.

We don’t need to replace one political dynasty with another. Especially one that looks like it’s poised to take power to get revenge or to restore their family --rather, their own political dynasty-- back into power.

What we need in the government are statesman and stateswomen who have the interest of the people and the country in mind.

Each presidential elections is becoming more important than the last, considering how the foreign debt of the Philippines is ever increasing, how climate change is getting worse, how difficult it has become to manage the country, and --whether we like it or not-- how we are becoming more involved in international geopolitics with superpowers both far and near.

And every wrong person elected into power, for example a president who is only interested in consolidating power, a vice president with a proven track record of corruption, a senator with no common sense, or a party-list representative who actually stands for a political group or political dynasty, compounds an already bad situation.

And the damage will become harder and harder to fix as the years go by.

We cannot afford to elect people just because we want to punish the previous administration, or because we want to put another political dynasty in power just because we are fans of them.