UNPREPARED TO LEAD

Do you know why Duterte is failing as a president? It is because he lacks national leadership experience, he immediately pole-vaulted from the city mayorship to the presidency. City Mayorship is micro-politics while the presidency is macro-politics. How can Duterte be effective in diplomacy when there is no diplomacy in being a City Mayor? How can he be good in the economy when the biggest economic policy of a City Mayor is just even a pigment of that LONG TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN of a City?

The election of Duterte to the presidency was actually recklessness on the part of the people who voted for him to the presidency when he lacked the proper experience in order for him to be a good president.

The story would have been different had Duterte prepared for the presidency like running, winning, and serving as a congressman, senator, or vice president, because these positions are actually good training grounds for the presidency since these positions are actually national elective offices. It is true that the position of a congressman is being elected locally but its functions are that of a national elective position since the same may make, alter or repeal laws of national importance.

That is the problem of Duterte he ran for the presidency without preparing for it, hence he is now managing the country as an unprepared national leader. Yes, he won the presidential contest but the question is did he effectively served the state? The answer is a NO because he did not prepare for it.

Duterte prepared to be City Mayor and never prepared to be president, therefore he is now running the country like a city being ruled by a City Mayor. His style of berating his critics is a typical style of a local politician, his penchant for rumor-mongering is actually a common local political strategy ... and that's what the people got for electing a local official directly to the presidency.

MIND CONDITIONING AND PREPARATION FOR AN ELECTORAL CHEATING IN 2022

By Bayawanon With the thousands of death by way of the extra-judicial killings in relation to the drug war, failed promise to end private labor contracts in the private sector, failed promise to lower the price of rice, failed promise to increase the salaries of the teachers and the government workers, failed promise to ease the traffic in the metropolis, failed promise to reclaim the WEST PHILIPPINE SEA, the spiking of the prices of basic commodities, the highering of taxes, the red-tagging, the extra-legal executions of many human rights lawyers and activists, the contribution spike re SSS monthly contribution, the mismanagement of COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, the Marawi Siege debacle and many other unsolved societal problems under the Duterte Administration ... Philippine President Duterte managed to have a 91 percent approval rating from the surveys.

The 2022 national elections are fast approaching, hence, it is but normal that survey firms would hold surveys in connection with the said elections, and Sara Duterte, the presidential daughter, a City Mayor of the beautiful and rich city of Davao would land number one in many surveys held by the survey firms, despite a lack of national experience and exposure, thereby thumping out Vice President Leni Robredo in the surveys, who is the front-runner of the national opposition and the leading frontliner in connection with national disasters like the typhoons and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Commission of Elections (COMELEC) has long been prepared by Duterte for a possible victory of him or his protegee/s in the 2022 national and local elections by getting rid of former COMELEC Chairman Bautista, a former Aquino appointee, by threatening to file cases against him not in consonance with his functions as chairman of the powerful election body and for appointing his (Duterte) people in the COMELEC like its chairman, commissioners, and regional directors.

The facts enumerated and stated above are clearly preparations for the 2022 national/presidential and local elections cheating I surmise, and the 2019 senatorial and local elections were actually a dry run for massive electoral cheating in 2022 when the official slate of the main opposition called OTSO DIRETSO was flushed to the proverbial kitchen sink by way of that seven (7) hour glitch by SMARTMATIC the official electronic tabulator of the COMELEC.

The proofs stated in the first two paragraphs of this article can also be considered as a mind conditioning for the people to believe that Duterte and his party would win in the 2022 elections as a matter of fact Duterte has a very high approval rating and Sara Duterte would actually win the presidency, as a matter of fact, she is comfortably leading in many national surveys as a presidential front runner despite the dismal real performance of her father and her lack of national sightings.

The strategy of President Duterte in winning the presidency for his political party or to probably wipe out all of the political positions in the 2022 elections in favor of his well oiled political machinery can be historically gleaned in the 1986 presidential snap elections between Cory Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos, wherein Marcos was comfortably leading in the surveys despite his very poor human rights record and the national economic downturn during those times. The surveys were eventually confirmed by the election when Marcos would win in the counting of the votes but such win by Marcos would eventually torch a national display of discouragement by the people against Marcos for the past twenty (20) years of his presidency which resulted in national decadence by staging the PEOPLE POWER REVOLUTION.

For the opposition to stifle possible cheating by the current national administration in the next national and local elections in 2022, it must display a very strong drive for the political education of the electorate whose majority still believe in fake news and fake surveys. The opposition must and should exert all efforts to covet the presidency in the 2022 elections in the name of REAL CHANGE and for the Philippines to regroup and replan the development of the Philippines which slowed down via Duterte's election in 2016. So be it.

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