WHAT will campaigning be like in the upcoming 2022 national and local elections? Pandemic conditions are still likely to prevail at the approach of the 2022 electoral exercise, and government has yet to lay the final plans to inoculate 80 percent of the Philippine population. How long it will take is anybody’s guess, but vaccinations will likely go well into the year 2022.

The world witnessed what happened in the Nov. 3, 2020 US presidential elections. A lot of misinformation and disinformation and calls to action via social media platforms led to the deadly siege of the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.