PPCRV launches ‘One Good Vote’ campaign

MANILA — In a bid to boost the Filipino citizens’ voting IQ, the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) has recently renewed its vow ahead of the next poll season through its One Good Vote” campaign.” Clean, honest, fairIn her interview over Church-run Radyo Veritas, PPCRV Chair Henrietta de Villa shared the lay-initiated drive aims to pave the way for a clean, honest, and peaceful” 2016 presidential election by focusing on voters’ education.The former ambassador to the Holy See expresses hope the campaign will lead to the eradication of rampant vote-buying in the country which has perennially polluted the national political arena down to the smallest barangay.Fight vs. vote-buyingShe said PPCRV intends to choose a parish in each diocese where the group will conduct information dissemination, zeroing in on the important topics voters need to know, especially the no vote-buying” policy.Meanwhile, De Villa showed support for the special voters’ registration the Commission on Elections (Comelec) held in Maguindanao.Noting it is still without a permanent chair, she expects Comelec will have a highly qualified person heading the office as soon as possible while there is ample time before the 2016 election.Since 1991Along with then Manila Archbishop Jaime L. Cardinal Sin, Antipolo Bishop Gabriel Reyes, and Msgr. Bayani Valenzuela, De Villa founded PPCRV in 1991 as a national parish-based political, but non-partisan, lay movement that works assiduously for clean, honest, accurate, meaningful, and peaceful elections.”(Raymond A. Sebastián/CBCP News)