Philippine Elections 101

PRESENTED BY: Anakbayan Philadelphia

Monday, March 31, 2025, Doors at 6:30pm

 Free with Registration

The 2025 Philippine midterm election comes during severe economic and political crises in the country. The alliance of convenience between the Marcoses and Dutertes has completely unraveled, with open and covert antagonism playing out between the two political dynasties. 

The results of the 2025 midterm election will set the battleground for the 2028 presidential election, in which the Marcoses’ and Dutertes’ clash for power will come to a head. 

The forces of imperialism (principally the US, and also its main rival China) also view the importance of the 2025 election in determining the level of influence and control they will have over the Philippines in the coming years.

Following massive voter fraud and the electoral defeat of the Leni-Kiko camp, the traditional bourgeois opposition has struggled to regain strength. Some have even grown warmer to Marcos in the past 2 years. 

These conditions — widespread dissatisfaction with the state of the Philippine economy, in-fighting between the top ruling cliques and their imperialist backers, and a weak traditional bourgeois opposition — creates a golden opportunity for the mass movement to fight, not just for the election in and of itself, but for the national democratic program as a whole.

Join Anakbayan Philadelphia to learn about how the Philippines’ electoral system works, what a People’s Democratic Government is, and why it’s important to have leaders from the masses of the people!

Anakbayan Philadelphia is a grassroots youth and student-led mass organization. We arouse, organize, & mobilize our communities for national liberation and genuine democracy in the Philippines.

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