First Time Voting

I read lots of articles about the Philipines election a few days ago, later I realised that it's election time here also, lol. The funny dubbed songs are continuously being fed to people on road. Ah, they can be so annoying.

I saw Philippines people got lots of goods in the election which is very similar to many developing countries where the candidates standing in the election try to Woo them with these small things or money.

Today I will tell you about what happens when Elections happen here. It was a regional level election or Panchayat a Village Council. The position was for 'Mukhiya' who acts as the main guy and receives funds and projects first and his sole work is to give the villagers every benefit of projects available for them and for the development of the village which they rarely do, lol.

The same thing happens, they try to promote themselves in any way they can from loudspeaker vehicles to meeting people in their homes. We got more than 10 visitors to ask for a vote in recent 3-4 days. Imagine the nerve of the current corrupted one showing their smiley face in front of you. I thought of locking the door and using my baseball bat, lol. Only in my mind.

We live in a city but the Voter Card is of my village address so I had to go there and vote and both in the city and village today's the day to vote. We reached the voting Booth around 10 a.m it was cloudy for 5 minutes and then sunny later on, the line was small as we have only a 1000 voters list out of which only 60% people come every year. It's my first time voting. I asked my uncle who helped us a lot in many works involving government officials to choose which candidate? He sent details of candidates of 2-3 obviously only the better of which he was supporting, haha.

I ended up voting for his choice because that person even without power had solved a Divorce issue in my family which took us years to solve. We had lost hope as the other party had big connections and he wasn't accepting the deal and giving us mental stress. Even the current Mukhiya didn't help us at all, he indirectly demanded a bribe to clear the issue.

And one surprising thing which I heard today is that some of our house members will be voting for the current one. Even though he just misused his power and broke our trust by not helping and counterfiring as he joined sides with the other party. I asked myself a question, this is the reason for no development here. I didn't say anything to them because everything was crystal clear that guy is a corrupted piece of shit still they are voting for him. Yeah, it's their choice.

Here people were given gas fees and alcohol by some candidates some were giving money also like 5-10$ per head. Well, I didn't get any. I just want the gas fees, haha. My uncle has promised to pay for it, as he got some money to promote the candidate which helped our family. I hope he keeps the promise as gas fees is so high and the overall distance to come and go from my city to village is more than 125km.

I realised every candidate is giving some type of bribe.

But as you know we should use our brains, nobody is forcing us to do anything. But with that at least we should choose a less corrupted candidate. I can't think and expect of a zero percent corrupted candidate in today's era.

Final Thoughts

I hope he wins as the current one annoys people a lot when they try to make regional caste and income certificates, he consumes lots of unnecessary time and money. He didn't approve a free 1-floor house project of suitable villagers, for that he asked bribe of more than 50-100$ for every single approval. The price may not be much for us but it's huge for Provincial people.

If he wins again this time, I will see why villages are never being developed. Only they are responsible for the underdevelopment of their region. I don't live there more than 10 days in a year but I want to see this place at least get the free facilities which government provides.

I know people change when they get power, I hope another candidate gets opportunity this time. But I don't have high hopes as I have seen politicians changing colours better than chameleons. It's a blunt truth here. Can't say about your region.

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