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THE arrival of the official campaign season brings with it an issue that has bedeviled the Philippines almost since its founding as a nation, the stubborn persistence of political dynasties. In spite of a prohibition against them being written into the 1987 Constitution, the fundamental law of the land, generation after generation of the same relatively few families fill elected offices at every level of government. Every election, the consensus opinion of an overwhelming majority of Filipinos is, "this must stop," and in every Congress following an election, bills are introduced to do exactly that.
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