LAST week saw a ceremony of the four-party (as of now) coalition with the President's party for the next election. The President was quoted as saying that this was not just a political maneuver and not a marriage of convenience but based on ideology. The article in The Manila Times last Monday quoted the President as follows: 'We speak now of unity, we speak now of Bagong Pilipinas, bringing the country, transforming the country to another place to a better place than we had found it.'

I hope that is true rather than a mere hope, but I wish there was more to what the ideology encompasses. I view unity as a hope and goal but not an ideology, and want to know how we plan to move to a better place and one that preferably is lasting. I am not a media person or in politics, so I may have missed the details of the shared ideology 'Bagong Pilipinas' encompasses but hope to read more.