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Examining the Political Scene and Our Culture:

PHILIPPINE POLITICS

The Political Scene

The Political Scene

Rich vs. Poor

The Political Scene

Rich vs. Poor

Interference with the

Administration of Justice

The Political Scene

Rich vs. Poor



Political Debts

The Political Scene

Rich vs. Poor



Political Debts

Violation of Separationof Powers

The Political Scene

Rich vs. Poor



Political Debts


Cheating and Vote-Buying

The Political Scene

Rich vs. Poor



Political Debts


Cheating and Vote-Buying

Elections and the Electoral Process

Our Political Culture

Typical politician


Typical politician

means of enrichment and a source of influence and power


Typical politician

means of enrichment and a source of influence and power Political Dynasties


Typical politician

means of enrichment and a source of influence and power Political Dynasty

What accounts for this sad state of things?


PhilippineElectionsProcess

Pre-Election Day Activities

Politico

MEDIA

Moral

erosion

SikatSikat Sikat

Sikat



Election Day Activities




PCOS




PCOS

Post-Election Period




PCOS


Certificate of

Challenge of Protest and the

Decision of the BEI




PCOS


Certificate of

Challenge of Protest and the

Decision of the BEI

Consequences:

• paying political debts

• recouping election expenses

• making fat profits for themselves

Consequences of a Corrupt Politics

Our Nation’s Fiscal Problem:• At least 40% of the annual budget is lost

annually to corruption• 30% is automatically allocated to foreign

debt repayment




debt repayment

For every peso, only 30 centavos technically go to public services




debt repayment


LESS FUNDS for Public Services• Education• Health• Housing• Judiciary• Infrastructure• Other Basic

Services/Economic Support




debt repayment




UNCONDUCIVE climate for…• Private

Businesses• Jobs Creation




debt repayment




UNCONDUCIVE climate for…• Private

Businesses• Jobs Creation

ZERO leverage for renegotiating Foreign Debt Repayment

POVERTY PROFILE

POVERTY PROFILE

16 of 81 provinces have 40% of their population living below the poverty threshold

POVERTY PROFILE

16 of 81 provinces have 40% of their population living below the poverty threshold

Poorest

Least poor

Very limited chances to earn money, often surviving by scavenging and begging.


Farm laborers, domestics, and casual low-skill workers with no regular, stable source of income.



Have regular source of income, but not enough to meet the family’s daily needs.



Have regular source of income, but not enough to meet the family’s daily needs.

Living slightly below the poverty line of US$2 or Php 80 a day.

POVERTY PROFILE

POVERTY PROFILE

53 millionFilipinos@ 5/family

POVERTY PROFILE

At an average of 5 per family, ½ or some 53 million of 100 million Filipinos are poor.

POVERTY PROFILE

COMPARATIVE PER CAPITA INCOMEas of 2011


• ranks 4th among ASEAN 5 nations beating only Vietnam



• = 24% of Malaysia’s



• = 24% of Malaysia’s• = 48% of Thailand’s



• = 24% of Malaysia’s• = 48% of Thailand’s• = 68% of Indonesia’s,

which population is 2x the Philippines’



• = 24% of Malaysia’s• = 48% of Thailand’s• = 68% of Indonesia’s,

which population is 2x the Philippines’

• = 8% of the average of Industrialized Economies’ US$30,805

COMPARATIVE GROWTH and GDP


Much self-praise has been given on good governance practices by administration officials, attributable to the Philippines’ growth performance


Much self-praise has been given on good governance practices by administration officials, attributable to the Philippines’ growth performance

Even with 8% compounded annual growth onward, it will take the Philippines – • 17 years to equal Indonesia’s current GDP• 6 years to equal Thailand’s current GDP• 3 years to equal Malaysia’s current GDP – without these economies growing.

70% of Filipino families struggle to survive on P86 or less per day (about US$2) –

this is approximately 12 million families.

INCOME DISTRIBUTION

The net worthof the top 20

Filipino families is US$15.6 billion.

Philippine politics--the way it is practiced--has been most hurtful of us as a people.

It is possibly the biggest bane in our life as a nation and the most pernicious obstacle to our achieving of full human development.

The CBCP on

PHILIPPINE POLITICS

If we are what we are today--a country with a very great number of poor and powerless people--one reason is the way we have allowed politics to be debased and prostituted to the low level it is in now.

Our faith in God has played a key role in major events of our history…yet politics as a whole has been, strangely, largely impervious to the Gospel.

Our political culture denies, to our shame, our proud claim to the name Christian.

DEMANDS OF OUR FAITHCBCP

• We must engage ourselves totally against the forces that stand in the way of reform and systemic change, we must encourage and support one another in what should be a common and concerted striving to create a less hurtful and more humane political order.

• The urgent need is for us, as Christians and as Church, to evangelize politics, to become involved in politics in the way of the Gospel.

• Any serious believer in God cannot allow the state of our national politics to persist. There is a duty for the Christian Catholic to transform politics by the Gospel. The Church, God's people, must evangelize politics. God's call to the Church is to preach the integral Gospel, the Gospel with all its social dimensions. The Gospel must influence every phase of life, every stratum of society, and "restore all things under Christ".

• We invite all of you, our Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, to join us in a common resolve to clean up and to renew what we have seen is one of the most harmful aspects of our national life--today's kind of politics.

• How do we go about changing the way politics is done in the Philippines so that, instead of being a stumbling block, it positively contributes to integral development, including the spiritual growth, of our people?

QUESTIONS WE MUST ASK OURSELVES

• How do we renew politics so that it becomes a channel for our people's well being and growth in the life of grace?

• How do we ensure that the truths about faith and politics do not remain unattainable ideals but become reality?

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