Statement of the Clergy for Good Governance (CGG)
Maka-Diyos, Maka-Filipino!
NOT A SNAP ELECTION, BUT A SNAP OF CONSCIENCE!
We, the Clergy for Good Governance, come before you as your pastors who personally know the mother choosing between medicine and rice, the father ashamed he cannot send his child to school, the families torn apart as loved ones leave for foreign lands because there is no future here. We know your struggles are not statistics.
This is why we must speak.
We say this with moral clarity: The answer to corruption is not a snap election - it is a snap of conscience.
Before seeking new power, bring justice to the people you have wronged. Hold accountable all who plundered our nation, whoever they are, however powerful. Let them face the law, stay behind bars, and be perpetually disqualified from office. No resignation, no political maneuvering can erase the injustice done to the Filipino people.
Every peso stolen is not just a number, it is the child who dies from preventable disease, the farmer drowning in debt, the graduate with no work. Every stolen peso has a face, a name, a soul crying out to God.
On August 22, we came to the Senate not as protesters but as priests, to pray with breaking hearts and call our leaders back to God. And we are ready to return, with ashes in our hands, to remind our leaders that power is temporary, but justice is eternal. We do this not to shame, but to save, to call them back before it is too late.
We will pray, but we will not be silent. Repentance must be seen in reform, not rhetoric. Justice must rise before elections.To our people: We stand with you. We walk with you. We will not stop praying, we will not stop speaking, and we will not abandon you in this fight for justice.
The Philippines does not need a snap election. It needs truth, justice, and a conversion of hearts.
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Refer to today’s Philippine Daily Inquirer centerfold cover for the full feature.
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