
Originally Posted by
giddyboy
let's take a brief history (read carefully):
The 1973 Consti originally provided for a multi-party system on the theory that w/ such a system, elections would be decided on issues of platforms and principles and not personalities. However, the 1980 local elections spawned several splintered parties which were only factions headed by personalities.
The 1987 Consti, although it eliminated the two-party provision of the 1973 Consti, does not expressly mandate a multi-party system.It merely removes the constraints on a freely evolved multi-party system. Neither does it prohibit a two-party system. In a "free and open party system", the people may prefer a two-party or three-party system later by supporting particular parties and their candidates.
The initial draft of the Consti was geared towards a parliamentary form of gov't but because of fear of the revolutionary gov't that political followers of Marcos might be elected and succeed to dominate the parliament, it managed to have the Constitutional Commission shift to the presidential form. In the process, the provision on the multi-party system which is more appropriate for the parliamentary form was overlooked.
and later on, we have also included a party list system under the Party list Law providing representation of marginalized sectors. it paved the way for a full operation of a multi-party system in our country.
What we have now is a multi-party system under a presidential form of government. This is an incongruency because a multi-party system belongs to a parliamentary system where the Prime Minister, the real executive, is chosen by members of Parliament in the same way that a two-party system belongs to a presidential system where the President is directly elected by the people. Where there are several presidential candidates, the probability is that the winner will not garner the majority of the votes cast (unless the Constitution provides for a run-off election) and this is not conducive to political stability.
so by correcting the system from a presidential nature to a parliamentary form would accordingly correct also the nature of how political parties work.
source: Philippine constitutional law
Ayon kay Hector S. De Leon, Philippines
hehehe.. what i emna is political culture.. how can a law change the way poltician think on political parties... if we have two political parties how can we be sure na dili sila parehas ug political ideas...
maganda sana yung multi-party because it present alot of politcal ideas from green, pro-labour.... conservative..
see when we speak of poltical parties we must at least able to identify their ideologies and asa gikan ila stand sa mga poltical issues... asa sila dapit are their liberal,conservative, communist, pacifist.. but wiht pour present kind of politics.. atong poltitcians kay bisan sila wala gyud ka kahibaw asa sila dapat ibutang.. depende ra gyud sa ilaha kaugalingon kabubut-on.. dili gyud sa party
kahit anong sysem pa yan if our political nature or culture is screwed... bati ra gihapon ang gawas...

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para nako unahon sa nato educate atong mga taw ug politician before we change...
we can have two parties or multi parties pero pare-pareho lng sial ng stand and ideas.. pare-pareho lang ng flovor ng icecream..