Prelate to voters: follow your conscience, study character of candidates

MANILA, February 13 2010—Pampanga Archbishop Paciano Aniceto urged the voters to examine very carefully the candidates that they are going to vote this coming May 2010 elections. “We need to follow our conscience and study the character of candidates,” he said. Aniceto said that the automated election system does not make certain a free, clean and honest election. “The transformation of the Philippines starts with values. Infrastructures are useless when concern for others is absent,” said the prelate. The bishop also reiterated his call to the voters not to sell their votes for this is the root of the country’s suffering once candidates who indulged in vote-buying assume office. In a related development, the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) is intensifying its campaign against vote buying. Similarly the Social Action Centers of every diocese across the country that are under the network of the National Secretariat for Social Action (NASSA) will focus on voters education in their Lenten program known as “Alay Kapwa”. (Kate Laceda)

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