When will political dynasties ever end?

A STUDY released by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies and published in August 2015 said "[political dynasties] are pervasive in the 10 poorest provinces [in the Philippines] that are afflicted by low levels of human development, bad governance, violence and poor business climates. Apart from a direct link to poverty incidence, political dynasties also tend to weaken checks and balances in the government and the political system. It perpetuates 'personality-based politics' that focus on a candidate's name rather than his or her credentials."

To this day, only the incidence of political dynasticism has vastly improved at the expense of their constituents at the grassroots level whose lives did not. Instead of being alleviated, their situation, in fact, worsened where 70 percent of congressional district representations belong to political dynasties, a study by the Asian Institute of Management and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Foundation found.