Straight from the Heart

Independent Press of Zamboanga Peninsula, Inc. (IPZPI)

10-Point Guidelines for Choosing The Right Candidates

The officers, Board of Directors, and Member of the IPZPI will guide our electorate intelligently and wisely in their choices of local and national candidates on May 10, 2010 election.

1.      1. A candidate who possesses the required educational and technical qualifications, competences, skills, abilities, and desirable work ethics for the public office he seeks or aspire to occupy;

2.       2. Who make no distinction about the ethnicity, social status, economic status, educational background, historical and cultural origins or religious affiliations as long he/she a Filipinos. He treats all the inhabitants of the Philippines equally without prejudices, biases, and discriminatory acts on account of ethnicity. He deals with all of them with same level of respect and dignity;

3.       3. Who epitomizes and actualizes the processes, principles and ideals of a genuinely democratic, participatory, and pluralistically consultative governance;

4.       4. Who values, respects, and harnesses the useful, positive, and constructive ideas, talents, and leadership potentials of subordinates and ordinary citizens, and consult them comprehensively on all issues and concerns having to do with public welfare and interest;

5.      5  Who never dare or attempt even to the slightest degree, to dip his fingers into the coffers of the taxpayers or sovereign people and spend public funds to aggrandize himself or his family;

6.     6. Who demonstrates the highest sense of public ethics and morality and will never attempt to use public vehicles, equipment, and facilities to advance his personal and family interest;

7.      7. Who wholeheartedly works for the holistic and equitable expansion, development, and progress of this politically stunted republic toward the countryside, and empower the  different provinces, cities, municipalities and barangays to chart their own destiny without undue pressures and coercive influence from higher authorities;

8.     8.  Who shows the highest respect for the rule of law and an uncompromising adherence, devotion, and transparency in all government deals, transactions, and operation;

9.      9. Who considers the great republic as a common homeland for all the different cultural communities, and residents and not a a private property or exclusive territorial possession of a dynasty; and

10. 10.  Above all and most importantly, who manifests a deep and abiding faith in the Almighty and die-hard protector and defender of human rights, civil liberties, harmonious relation,  peaceful co-existence, and living side-by-side among the multi-cultural diversity population of the republic.