Monday, March 19, 2007
Candidates asked to campaign for environment
THE Cebu Provincial Board (PB) supports the call to make the candidates’ stand on environmental concerns a campaign issue.
PB Member Victor Maambong, who sponsored the resolution, said making environmental concerns a campaign issue will guide the public to elect responsible leaders.
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There are calls to make environmental issues an election issue to find out a candidate’s stand on matters, such as illegal fishing, air and water pollution, water scarcity, forest degradation, garbage and solid waste management.
“This is a sound idea considering that environmental devastation has reached unprecedented proportions and the impending environmental holocaust, such as the dreaded greenhouse effects and global warming phenomenon are becoming more real each passing day,” Maambong said.
Also, the PB supports the Cebu Citizens Maturation for People Empowerment and Liberation’s (C-Cimpel) drive to tap the youth for the May 14 elections.
Watchers
C-Cimpel is looking for youth volunteers to serve as poll watchers, among others, in the elections.
“It is said that there is no better teacher than experience and what a better way to educate our youth than to involve them in the coming electoral exercise to enable them to gain first-hand knowledge on the workings of democracy while contributing at the same time to the conduct of an honest, orderly and peaceful elections,” the resolution read. (MBG)
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