The Wily Filipino

It's Final: We're Done For.

I don't know what FPJ's platform is, but I doubt he knows either. For that matter, I don't know what GMA's platform is either, and I don't know that anyone particularly cares.

This is just about the messiest Philippine election campaign in decades, and I mean campaign, not election -- the fraud will probably come later. There doesn't seem to be much difference between the newly-minted parties -- no, wait, they're more like alliances now -- since formerly "opposition" senators are now on the same side. It's not clear what these politicians are "opposed" to anymore; it seems to have devolved into a series of high school cliques. May tampo si ganire kay ganoon, kaya nasa ibang alyansya na siya; bati na sila ngayon kaya magkasama na sila.

And now this, where Erap's former principal enemy defects to Erap's best friend's party, effectively ensures that an actor with zero political experience and close ties to the previous ousted presidents will become the next president of the Philippines.