{"id":16851,"date":"2025-10-06T16:28:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T08:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=16851"},"modified":"2025-10-06T16:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T08:28:30","slug":"lacson-certainty-of-punishment-of-corrupt-politicians-not-snap-election-key-to-restoring-public-trust-in-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/10\/06\/lacson-certainty-of-punishment-of-corrupt-politicians-not-snap-election-key-to-restoring-public-trust-in-government\/","title":{"rendered":"LACSON: CERTAINTY OF PUNISHMENT OF CORRUPT POLITICIANS NOT SNAP ELECTION KEY TO RESTORING PUBLIC TRUST IN GOVERNMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>A SNAP election is not the key to restoring public trust in the government &#8211; but the certainty of punishment is, Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo &#8220;Ping&#8221; M. Lacson said Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lacson pointed out that an election, whether snap or regular, may even fuel more corruption as candidates may try to buy votes, in many cases using taxpayers&#8217; money.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Election, snap or regular, is not the solution. In fact, election campaigns actually add to more corruption &#8211; of the electorate by the candidates,&#8221; he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lacson issued the reaction after Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano floated the idea of a snap election of the President, Vice President, and members of the Senate and the House to restore trust in government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lacson said the certainty of punishment, especially the swiftness of conviction, would be a stronger deterrent to corruption.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>He has repeatedly pushed for the certainty of punishment, meaning the charging, prosecution, conviction and imprisonment of those involved in wrongdoing, to end the corruption behind anomalous projects.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;For a change, how about certainty of punishment of corrupt politicians? The higher the better,&#8221; he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SNAP election is not the key to restoring public trust in the government &ndash; but the certainty of punishment is, Senate President Pro Tempore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16853,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16851\/revisions\/16853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}