{"id":63252,"date":"2015-10-20T03:09:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T08:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=63252"},"modified":"2015-10-20T03:09:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T08:09:07","slug":"large-number-of-candidates-in-2016-elections-sign-of-absurd-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/20\/large-number-of-candidates-in-2016-elections-sign-of-absurd-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Large number of candidates in 2016 elections, sign of absurd government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">MANILA, PHILIPPINES &#8211; The recorded number of people who filed their certificate of candidacy (COC) is only a sign of dissatisfaction and absurdity of the Philippine government, and not a clear sign of democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damaging Mahihirap (KADAMAY) said that many ordinary people filed their candidacy because they are already fed up with the Aquino administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">KADAMAY president Gloria Arellano said in a report by Mayen Jaymalin of Philippine Star, due to Aquino\u2019s administration\u2019s weakness, lack of credibility, and many mistakes they commited, urged a large number of people to run in the polls for presidential bid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gloria added that Aquino\u2019s inability to fulfill his promise of \u201cdaang matuwid\u201d encouraged people to enter politics. Reports of killings and harassment of urban poor leaders in past five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A total of 130 candidates filed COCs for president, 19 for vice president, and 172 for senators. A bulk of those are ordinary people or unknown candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Among of those who filed their COCs are former military officials including Former Philippine National Police &#8211; Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) chief Getulio Nape\u00f1as who decided to run the senatorial bid because Aquino\u2019s administration failed to give justice to the 44 PNP-SAF cops who died during the encounter with Muslim rebels in Mamasapano, Maguindanao last January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">KADAMAY said that they will continue to expose the irregularities under Aquino\u2019s administration and will work to put the people involved in the encounter behind the bars.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, PHILIPPINES &#8211; The recorded number of people who filed their certificate of candidacy (COC) is only a sign of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":63253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-63252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-mavelle-durian","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}