THE leading candidate, Mr. Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., has garnered over 30 million votes and it is well-nigh impossible for the trend to be reversed. I am not going to repeat the hackneyed "Vox populi..." line because I know that it is not true that the voice of the people is the voice of God. God spoke through prophets and sages many times to excoriate his people for the choices that they were making.
But we have opted for a democracy, and in the months, weeks and days preceding the elections, we loudly protested our defense of democracy, enjoying its blessings and exercising its privileges and prerogatives to the hilt. In our system of democracy, each man or woman not disqualified by law casts a vote — and each goes into determining who the leaders of the country will be. So does our Constitution ordain, a constitution that we made binding on ourselves by ratifying it in 1986.
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