"Choosing the Leaders of the Next Term"

       What does it take to become a good leader? How does one become a leader? When would we experience a new and unique leadership? The Philippine Nation experiences every time a change of leaders in our government but does this change makes the leaders deserving of their position? Some, because not all leaders have the compassion to serve their nation and their goal is just to steal money or to corrupt the very foundation of our government. One example of this change that we experience every time is the Philippine Election. There are many various terms or period of leadership like the election for president, senators, mayors and government. The election may be local or national. One of the most discussed topics for this year is the Philippine Senate Election 2013. Let us discussed more about the Philippine Senate Election to learn more about it and determine the aura of the possible leaders of our nation.

    The Philippine Senate Election 2013 will be the 31st of the Philippine Senatorial elections. It will be conducted on Monday, May 13, 2013 to elect 12 of the 24 seats in the Senate. The newly elected ones and the past elected ones in the last election of 2010 will form the 16^th Congress. The senators who were elected in 2010 will serve until June 30, 2016, while the senators who were elected in this election will serve up to June 30, 2019. Philippine Senatorial Elections are done via the plurality at-large-voting system: the entire country is one at-large "district", where a voter can vote up to twelve people (one vote per candidate), with the twelve candidates with the highest amount of votes deemed being elected. During the course of the election, the different coalitions or groups are campaigning by showing the public advertisements, posters or tarpaulins, flyers and other public campaigning methods to promote what they have done.

       

  Some candidates violate the rules and regulations in campaigning which are set by the COMELEC (Commission on Elections) by posting different ads in prohibited places or displaying the name or image in products such as food, canned goods and other products. One of the most visible part in campaigning is the representative color or political color of each coalition for example Yellow for Team PNoy, Orange for the UNA (United Nationalist Alliance) and other political colors of the coalition. These coalitions sometimes argue with each other in a way that they throw off different controversies to tarnish the name of the candidate to the public. These candidates will be the next generation of leaders that will take us to a nation not divided but united but some leaders may have different goals on why they ran for that position. They do not need to be so competitive but what they need is to give their real intention which is supposed to be to serve our nation not to steal from our nation. The Senate Election 2013 is near. We should all be wise and knowledgeable on whom we choose as our leader of our nation. It needs proper discernment.

                                                                                                                               -- Anton Miguel Jordan