Just poison the well or in boxing, hug each other so you won't get hit.

Because, you know, you asked me, what are the important numbers when it comes to democracy, democratic exercise? This is an important number.

Why? Because the assumption of the Constitution, the assumption of all democracies, why we do an impeachment trial, a public trial, is because when people watch, They care about what the impeachable officials are doing.

This is not only about the vice president now, but in general, as a principle, when we see their wrongdoing, we withdraw public support, and that's enough as a punishment for the public officials.

To show that they betrayed public trust, we withdraw public trust.

But this is the challenge nowadays, and I think the framers of the Constitution didn't imagine this.

The founding fathers of the US didn't imagine this, where we borrowed the impeachment process.

Are we too obsessed with getting things right? Yun ba ang problema natin?

Yeah

... you know, fieldwork dates, you know, and all the other, um, all the other, uh, survey parameters, you know? Um, so it, it would be good if there will be more initiatives like that, how to self-regulate, so that the bad apples na, uh, can be spotted by the public, then the public would know that, you know, they cannot be trusted and, uh, be, be reliable.

A lot of them actually may mga, yung mga online surveys, for example, you know? Online survey is not necessarily, um, uh, a weaker or a more ineffective version of surveys, uh, version of face-to-face surveys, you know? It's not, you know? Only that, um, it should be used appropriately as well, given how it was done, you know? Uh, so for example, um, you see sometimes that online surveys would also report, um, confidence level or margin of error, you know? I'm not sure where they're getting that, you know?

Right

... that they have been able to do these elections, 'no? And I understand that there are concerns about the incidents of violence and the incidents of, um, election cheating, 'no? Uh, well, we're-- it's the Philippines that we're talking about, 'no? Uh, it's not going to be, uh, succ- parang 100% successful overnight.

I think we have to remember that this election, this parliamentary elections, 'no, is happening as a result of the peace agreement, 'no, between the MILF and the Philippine government.

That means that we're trying to make it work.

There are problems, there are challenges, 'no? Meaning, without these elections, nagbabarilan po 'yan, 'di ba? There are communities suffering from these, uh, fights, 'no? Uh, may combats diyan, may mga combatants, 'no? Uh, but now we have these elections, and it's not perfect, but I think it's still a remarkable achievement.