A SOCIAL CONTRACT WITH THE FILIPINO PEOPLE
THE PLATFORM OF SENATOR BENIGNO “NOYNOY” S. AQUINO III
A National Leadership in Need of Transformational Change
• Its legitimacy is under question;
• It persecutes those who expose the truth about its illegitimacy and corruption;
• It stays in power by corrupting individuals and institutions;
• It confuses the people with half-truths and outright lies;
• It rewards, rather than punishes, wrongdoing;
• It offers no lasting solutions for the many problems of the country;
• It weakens the democratic institutions that hold our leaders accountable.
• It hinders our local governments from delivering basic services;
• It has no vision of governance beyond political survival and selfenrichment.
A People Crying out for Change
• Corruption robs our children of their protection, nutrition and education.
• Corruption destroys our families and communities.
• Corruption steals from our farmers and workers.
• Corruption deters businessmen from investing in our economy.
This has eroded our spirit as individuals, as communities, as a people.
• We have lost trust in the democratic institutions we so courageously re-established after the dictatorship.
• Our proven capacity for collective outrage and righteous resistance has been weakened.
• We have ceased to depend on the patriotism and civic engagement that used to animate many of our efforts.
• We have become divided and alienated, focusing only on ourselves and on our individual pursuits.
• Our moral faculties as a people have been paralyzed.
• We have retreated into a dark world of self-absorption and cynicism. Our collective despair has reached its lowest point.
Then finally, the gift of Light
Cory Aquino passed on to the next life. From our sadness, we awakened to a shaft of light cutting through the darkness. She left the Filipinos a legacy of selfless love for country and people. Filipinos’ connection with each other was rekindled. In death, she enabled us to hope again for decent government. The millions who connected with Cory at her funeral represented something more than euphoria, sentiment or transient emotions. They represented the reverent memory of a good leader in the past and the firm hope of having a similarly good leader in the future.
A People’s Campaign of Renewed Hope…
• Anchored on Ninoy’s and Cory’s legacy of change through the ways of democracy
• Embraces the qualities of integrity, humility and trust-worthiness in public leadership
• Recognizes the absence of these qualities in government as a major cause of widespread poverty, misery and despair.
The Vision for the Philippines: A country with…
1. A re-awakened sense of right and wrong, through the living examples of our highest leaders;
2. An organized and widely-shared rapid expansion of our economy through a government dedicated to honing and mobilizing our people’s skills and energies as well as the responsible harnessing of our natural resources;
3. A collective belief that doing the right thing does not only make sense morally, but translates into economic value as well;
4. Public institutions rebuilt on the strong solidarity of our society and its communities.
Our Mission:
We will start to make these changes first in ourselves---by doing the right things, by giving value to excellence and integrity and rejecting mediocrity and dishonesty, and by giving priority to others over ourselves.
We will make these changes across many aspects of our national life.
A Commitment to Transformational Leadership:
1. From a President who tolerates corruption to a President who is the nation’s first and most determined fighter of corruption.
2. From a government that merely conjures economic growth statistics that our people know to be unreal to a
government that prioritizes jobs that empower the people and provide them with opportunities to rise above poverty.
3. From relegating education to just one of many concerns to making education the central strategy for investing in our people, reducing poverty and building national competitiveness.
4. From treating health as just another area for political patronage
