The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has called on dioceses, parishes, Catholic schools and other religious and lay organizations to support the...
Unsuccessful candidates could not be appointed to government positions within one year after the elections, the Commission on Elections said Thursday.
"The one-year ban is...
The framers of the 1987 Constitution wisely left it to congress to define these terms, as the need may vary from time to time. Thus, understandably, in an online study published by the Ateneo School of Government (spearheaded by its Dean, Dr. Ronald Mendoza), “political dynasty” is simply members of the same family (identified by the same “family name”) holding elective office: “Thin dynasties” are those where the relatives succeed each other in office (sunod-sunod); while “fat dynasties” are those where members of the same family hold various elective offices simultaneously (sabay-sabay). Interestingly, the same study found that, at present, 80% of Governors, 68% of Vice-Governors, and 67% of Congressmen belong to “fat dynasties” (From Fat to Obese: Political Dynasties after the 2019 Midterm Elections, Ateneo School of Government Working Paper Series, September 2019).
