Tuesday Next A Country is Reborn

According to the chairmen of the national board of canvassers, a new set of leaders shall have been proclaimed next week, Tuesday at the latest. This is a significant development, if not historical in nature. After all the travails and challenges of the first automated elections, the Philippines has lifted itself past the clutches of election cheating and other dirty election maneuvers and would have been able to produce a set of leaders that will rule the country from the local up to the national level of governance.
It is therefore fitting to inject a sense of nostalgia in all these developments now embracing the country. Where before any election leaves a bitter trace of tragic consequences and regretable, if not horrible decision-making on the part of the voters, the election of May 10 may not be perfect but for one split moment, it stunned the nation with the swiftness of the results, hours after the closing of the precints. This prevented any real and unimagined tampering of the people's will.
The losers can continue to complain even up to the the election tribunals months or years after May 10, but the fact remains the developing normalcy and easy acceptance by the majority of the Filipino people days after the winners have been proclaimed, have proven to be the harbinger of things to come. And this should be for the better.
The winning President was elected on the basis of his political partry's mission to eliminate corruption as it is the root cause of poverty in the country. If he governs according to this program of reform, the Philippines should be on the right track for progress in the next six years. Of course there will be detractors and stumbling blocks along the way of reform, but it is easy to rule and generate the kind of leadership that this country needs once you are in the helm of power.
So come Tuesday next, if things are expected to happen, then the Filipino people will see a kind of rebirth of their country. And this can be made to happen with their willing participation and support.