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Our priority must be to put all our efforts to search and discover that Filipino leader
Here’s my challenge to everyone: let’s now begin the search for the next president in 2028.
I am sure we have someone who has the good and strong character with honesty and integrity who will be always looking after the welfare of our country and our national interest.
After discovering successfully this type of leader, we have to convince her or him to become our president. Having convinced her or him, by all means we will make her/him president — because she/he will do what is right and for the good of our country.
Our expectation is that our future president will set a good example for us to follow.
- The future president will put good and honest people with courage and tenacity to perform their duties and responsibilities in the Commission on Audit (COA). This is to help reduce our huge problem in corruption from the highest office to the last barangay, including the legislative and judiciary. It is to be noted that COA covers all these institutions. The COA executives are the vanguards to protect our country against corruption. It is to be expected that our future president will be really backing them in this endeavor of fighting corruption. Who among our politicians or emerging leaders can do this type of fighting machine?
- As for the fat and thin political dynasties obtaining in all the nook and cranny of our republic, our future president can just call them one by one and tell these politicians to start tapping other leaders to succeed them and look beyond their kin. Who among our politicians can refuse our future president?
- Our future president should prioritize electoral reforms that would clean up the corrupt election process and allow citizens outside political dynasties and the moneyed clans to participate. The key is to start the arduous task of leveling the playing field, which is now dominated by the corrupt. Question, who among the politicians in our legislative and judiciary can question such a good policy?
- Our future president will galvanize our people to strengthen our institutions, to protect our country’s sovereignty and the last marginalized Filipino family.
So, our priority must be to put all our efforts to search and discover that Filipino leader who has good and strong character, is honest and reliable, but also wise enough to be capable of Solomonic solutions to our multifarious problems.
We should start searching in earnest today. Search until we discover one! – Rappler.com
A 1962 graduate of the Philippine Military Academy, Manuel B. Mariano is a retired brigadier general who served as a longtime logsitics officer in the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
