Women votes for May 2010 crucial for reforms

Photo shows participants in recently concluded Electoral Reforms Forum conducted by the Civil Society Organization-Forum for Peace,Inc. at MSU-IIT, Iligan City.

By PJTremedal

Iligan City – As part and parcel of this government, woman votes this coming election on May 2010 is very crucial for change and should be given a chance for an electoral reform.

During the CSO-FP led Forum on electoral Reforms. Ms. Anita Sescon who speak for the Commission on Women for Mindanao sighted important things what women should do on election time for they has the equal participation in political life to play a pivotal role for the Filipino women advancement.

In the Beijing Platform for Action argues that “Women’s equal participation in decision making is not only to demand for justice or democracy but can also be seen as necessary condition for women’s interests to be taken into account”.

Ms. Sescon added that as an experience, political process often dictate the outcome, “We have bad processes for choosing our public leaders, so we get bad public leaders and poor governance” she said.

Wanting a real, intelligent and effective process, people must change in choosing their leaders. Public leadership is public service.

For Mindanao, never has the challenge to choose the right public leaders been more urgent. Many of the problems are caused, not exacerbated, by poor governance- by wrong policies and programs decided and implemented by the wrong people with wrong motives.

In the Electoral Reforms Forum conducted this week in the MSU-IIT College of Education Amphitheater, speakers like Fr. Albert Mendez for the call of the church for principled politics, and Atty Abdullah Dalidig’s Civil Society Responses for Electoral Reforms has enlightened the participants.

In the afternoon, a workshop pertaining to suggested reforms not only in this upcoming May Election 2010 but to achieved an honest, orderly, and peaceful election in the years to come.

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