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Padaca dares college grads to run in barangay elections
Aug 12th 2013, 00:19

MANILA, Philippines—With only a third of (barangay) officials having graduated from high school—and 13 percent only from elementary school—a Commission on Elections official over the weekend suggested the barangays needed a new breed of leaders.   Commissioner Grace Padaca said college graduates and young professionals should run in the next barangay elections, noting that 31 percent (or 104,186) of the total 336,200 barangay officials throughout the country had not gone beyond high school, while another 44,309 made it only past elementary school.   Padaca said that those who wanted to reform the system but could not hope to beat entrenched political dynas...

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