Holy Spirit-led 2025 Philippine elections!

God is truly good, all the time! God hears prayers too!

The 2025 Philippine election results testify to God’s guidance and care for our country and our people!

So many prayers lifted, including ours. Never has there been a more spiritual election and campaign period for many of us than the May 2025 Philippine elections.

In our May 10th column entitled “Guide Filipinos Next Please, Our Dear Holy Spirit!”,

we appealed to our readers – “Together, let us also pray for the Holy Spirit to guide Filipinos to elect and proclaim God’s chosen servant-leaders next Monday, May 12, 2025! May God save our country and allow the victory of His genuine/honest/chosen servant leaders!”

By evening of May 12th, so many messages and reports of “kamang” reached us.

“Kamang,” a Visayan term which literally translates to “crawl,” is a common practice among political parties and supporters of “stealthily crawling “or handing certain cash amount to voters especially during the eve of or even during the day of election.

Other regions may have their own term to describe this practice of vote buying which has become part of every election awaited by voters all throughout the country.

Reports that reached us from various parts of the country mentioned that the “kamang” amounts ranged from P500 to P3000 per voter or even more for hotly contested positions.

Amidst increasing reports of “kamang,” we posted this urgent message – “Rampant vote buying all over... Pls pls, let us all pray pray pray for God to send our Holy Spirit to save our country and touch all to vote for God's chosen genuine servant leaders tomorrow!!!

May 12, millions of Filipinos went to the polls to vote.

Did I observe, correctly or incorrectly, that while there were again malfunctioning machines, long waiting queues of voters again, there seemed to be less of these compared to the 2022 election, and less cases of election violence as well?

By 7 p.m., most of the polling places closed and did it take an hour after that for Comelec partial, unofficial results to be transmitted and relayed through various media outlets throughout the whole country and abroad?

And wow! Our people and our nation were not expecting the initial/ongoing results for both local and national positions!

This time around, while machinery, money, power or goons-gold-guns were still practiced and observed during this 2025 elections, these did not seem to stop Filipino voters from finally expressing their own, free choices!

Oh certainly, voters may still have accepted the “kamang” amounts like in previous elections but this time around, finally, voters seemed to have gotten wiser and freely voted for their own candidates, not the ones dictated by the vote-buyers!!!

Bam Aquino as No. 2, Kiko Pangilinan in No. 5, Akbayan as No. 1 Party List, Chel Diokno (finally!), even Leila de Lima assured of a seat in the next Congress!!!

No commissioned or non-commissioned survey results mentioned these opposition winners at all!!!

Heidi Mendoza, as of this writing, had more than 8.6 million votes, even ahead of those with much funds, budget, machinery, party support and all!

What happened?

Trapos were very confident their candidates will come out winners but BBM and Du30 camps only had 5 each among 12 senators.

Some secular explanations: votes from the 20% undecided, Leni Robredo’s Pink supporters, the more numerous Youth.

Our testimony/prayer:

“Thank You, dear God, for ushering a new dawn for the Philippines through the Holy Spirit's guidance for our voters to choose genuine public servants!!!

Lead us to become the country that will show the world of Your love for them and of our people's love for You!!!

Mama Mary of Fatima, on Your May 13-Feast Day today, thank you for continuing to intercede for peace/unity for all and the whole world!!!"