Election 2025: surnames, surprises, and Sara's triumph

During the recently held 2025 mid-term election campaign period, I noticed based on the campaign posters and other materials that many candidates are quite young or young-ish.

- Todd Sales Lucero

It was no longer like the days of our parents and grandparents, or even just a few years ago, when campaign materials showed somber and unsmiling candidates running for office. Now, most seem like profile photos in social media profile pages.

But, oh yeah, many of the old family names still appear in these campaign posters. Because the thing is, political families (or dynasties, if you will) will never be stamped out in local politics, at least for now. So you will always have the Duranos, Marcoses, Singsons, Dys, Garcias, and many more all over the Philippines. That is something that is not just unique to us, but for most of the Asian world. So complaining and obsessing on the political dynasties of the Philippines will do us no good.