In every proposition is an opposition. Many
would like a postponement of the Barangay Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) election and the
same expanse of people affirms the contrast.
Inefficacy. Irrelevance. Corruption.
The gist of postponing the SK Elections.
However, what remains the burden of the pro-reform groups and the legislators are:
First, the assurance that a year will satisfy all consultations, synthesis and
legal promulgations needed for an effective, relevant and productive
Sangguniang Kabataan (Perhaps this would not be the name after reformation, but
let’s use it for the meantime); And second, how would the higher government
reconcile the policy to the newly registered SK voters.
COMELEC and the SK Elections.
Before the postponement is the aggressive stance of the Commission on Election (COMELEC) of SK's abolition, which is
funny. It’s not for the COMELEC to say!
It should be crystal to the populace that
the commission is tasked “to make sure we have fair, honest, clean and orderly
elections. It is beyond their jurisdiction nor competency to say whether an
institution should be abolished or reform.)”, Undersecretary Leon Flores III,
Chairman of the National Youth Commission. Read full article here.
Besides, Republic Act No. 9340, otherwise known as “AN ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9164, RESETTING THE
BARANGAY AND SANGGUNIANG KABATAAN ELECTIONS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES”, states that a synchronized Barangay and the SK Elections is to be held every three years in last Monday of October. Let's keep it that way, until further notices.
The SK Election Postponed!
Granted the SK Election is postponed, there are ways the newly registered SK, specifically the prospective SK Officials, can take part on the SK Governance.
Every five years, the barangay conducts
Barangay Development Investment Plan (BDIP) where the present SK Chairpersons
can invite the intending SK Officials to incorporate their plans and
aspirations for the barangay. We also have the Barangay Annual Investment Plan
(BAIP), where a more specific one-year goal setting is discussed and laid-out.
The involvement of the potential SK
Chairpersons/ Officials will be very healthy for the barangay as we spend that waiting period for the next youth council election.
BUT it should be noted that whether or not
there is postponement in the SK Elections, the youth in the barangay must be
involved in the planning, in one way or another. Some input collection venues
would be during the General Assembly, purok meetings, or a special meeting called
by the present SK Officials, to name just a few.
Any more words?
Well, I must bring out that I’m against the generalization of having Sangguniang Kabataan as breeding ground for corruption, and not the fact that some barangay verifies the comment. These are two different things.
Also, there's no need to be bombastic on concepts that one is not comfortable with, such as the postponement, that's why in the latter section instead of being reactive tried to be proactive in rendering ideas of what can be done given the SK Election is postponed.
We, in behalf of the council, will be glad to have a new set of SK Officials this year. However, with the brewing postponement we can just hope that decisions will turn out right, for the better. What the present Sangguniang Kabataan
officials best do as of the moment is to spend this year as their last, with
maintained “best”, until valid pronouncements from the houses are delivered.
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