Importance Of Political Dynasty In The Philippines

Politics in the Philippines is a shambolic topic because of so many issues and opinions that don’t have conclusions. In my essay, I want to share my two cents about political dynasty. Prominent families have been governing the Politics in our country. It is normal for a politician 's son, wife, brother, or other kinsman, to run for the same or other office in the government. In 2013 election, about 250 families dominating the Philippine Politics both in the national and local level, 56 percent of them come from old political elites and 44 percent emerged after Edsa Revolution in 1986. To sum it up, 94 percent of the provinces in the Philippines have political dynasties. Political dynasty can be defined as a sequence of rulers considered as members of the same family. Also, the situation can be parallel with Oligarchy which is a form of power structure in which only a small group of people are empowered. These people may possibly be eminent by royalty, wealth, family ties, education, corporate or military control. Since the 8th Congress (1987’), above 50% of politicians are products of political families. That is why I can say that political dynasty has been a huge issue in the Philippines for a long time and brought up especially before every elections. Here in the Philippines, many of lawmakers are proposing some

However, political dynasties have proven to be more of a nuisance rather than an advantage. The advantage of political dynasties are in the most obvious sense is that it belongs to a family. Whatever insight the former has must have been passed one way or another to the latter. However, I have reasons to believe that the political dynasties existing in our government has more than just politics in their minds. I cannot explicitly say the details; yet I can say that the political dynasties in the Philippines mostly arose from the individual’s lust of