If the May 9, 2022 elections were a race, we are now approaching the homestretch, defined as “the part of a race course between the last turn and the winning post.” The other definition is “ a final stage.”
This is the time when citizens will begin hearing all kinds of out-of-this-world proposals from preference survey losers, like the proposal of the camp of Mar Roxas in 2016 asking for Senator Grace Poe to withdraw in order to stop the victory of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte who was leading the preference surveys at the time.
It should not surprise you therefore if you heard vice presidential aspirant Lito Atienza asking Senator Panfilo Lacson to withdraw from the race or Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso urging Vice President Lenie Robredo to drop out of the race.
What should voters do in the face of these outlandish actions of some election actors or their supporters. What else, but expect more desperate ideas coming from the camps losing in the series of credible surveys.
Non-partisan citizens and uninvolved kibitzers can also hope and pray no camp will embrace violent ideas.
