PCIJ
FOR those who'd like to bone up on the implications of the juetenggate and Gloriagate before President Arroyo's state-of-the-nation address (SONA) on Monday, the Institute for Popular Democracy, a political research and advocacy organization, has compiled the analyses it has written on the current political crisis.
The compilation, entitled "Gloriawatch" and downloadable in PDF format, includes Joel Rocamora's piece "Weteng for Reform," in which he predicts that the crisis should be the "last nail on the coffin of the country's bankrupt political system."
Rocamora stresses that the "Hello, Garci" controversy brings to the fore the problem not only with the electoral system. "What is in crisis is the whole system of representation, the heart of any democratic system," he says.
A local research consulting group, Stratbase, meanwhile, has put out a 20-page analysis on the crisis in time for Monday's SONA.
The paper, "Deconstructing the Crisis: The Real State of the Nation," states: "The problem of the Philippines is not just Gloria, it is far worse. The biggest problems we face now are the weaknesses of our institutions."
Stratbase laments that Filipinos are today stuck with captured political institutions, money politics, a fraudulent electoral system, a wanting political party system, weakened judiciary and law enforcement agencies and an "impasse-able" Congress.
The research group proposes a way out: a broad alliance or social coalition for reforms.
Download IPD's "Gloriawatch" and Stratbase's " Deconstructing the Crisis."
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