EDITORIAL — And so the circus begins

Yesterday was the first day of the filing of the certificate of candidacy for the 2025 mid-term elections. This is usually treated by political pundits as well as regular voters as the opening salvo of the “election fever” that grips the nation every few years.

As of yesterday, only a few people have proceeded to the Commission on Elections offices to cement their intentions to run, but this will quickly change in the next few days. We are sure to see prominent and famous politicians or even entire slates troop to the Comelec offices, sometimes with an entire festive barangay in tow, to file their candidacy.

And by the time the dust has settled and all who want to run for office finalized their decision, the voting public should already have a good idea whom to vote for and, more importantly, whom not to vote for.

Just look at our current crop of senators. Without naming names we can say that some of them don’t really belong in that supposedly august body with the level of comprehension they have, the background they have, or their previous record of inactivity in that crucial branch of government. Yet somehow they got voted in or keep getting reelected.

We don’t have to say what will happen if the wrong people get elected into the right positions and public offices. Of course this doesn’t go for only the senators but also those in lower government positions as well. Anyone who doesn’t deserve great political power and influence but who somehow got it can wreak more havoc and cause more destruction that the most powerful of typhoons.

By the time all certificates of candidacy are filed we should take a long and hard look at our choices. The right ones --or at least the better alternatives-- are there along with the wrong ones.