The proposed postponement of elections for community-level leaders and youth council representatives will be used by the current administration to further political agendas, political analysts said on Saturday. READ:
This election postponement, in the larger scheme of things, has always been used by sitting governments to mobilize their political machinery,Arjan P. Aguirre, a political science professor at the Ateneo de Manila University said in a Facebook chat.This was the reason why many of the barangay officials were seen to have been mobilized to support and campaign for the UniTeam,he said, referring to the combined political groups of President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.
Yusingco, a lawyer and policy analyst, said in a Facebook Messenger chat on Sunday that the postponement of the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan election mayGiven the number of times the elections have been postponed, it is also alarming that faith in the barangay and the SK might diminish,People might lose sight of the importance of the barangay and the SK in preserving our democratic bona fides.
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