APAT RAN Party

KAN INTRODUCTION

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The direct duty to work for a just ordering of society…, is proper to the lay faithful. As citizens of the State, they are called to take part in public life in a personal capacity. So they cannot relinquish their participation “in the many different economic, social, legislative, administrative and cultural areas, which are intended to promote organically and institutionally the common good.”

Source: First Encyclical Letter, Pope Benedict XVI, 2005

Lay Faithful……called

…Common Good

ANG APAT RANK I

Background

• Poverty and disorder engulfs the Philippines• The political leaders have destroyed their mandate

• Politics has become a dirty word

• Ordinary people do not participate

• Political transformation is the role of the laity

• A party to represent our common aspirations

Politics is our Duty!

Principles of Ang Kapatiran

• Belief in God Almighty and the dignity of life• Preferential option for the weak and the poor

• Political transformation led by the laity, guided by church leaders

• Platform-based rather than personality

• Members will be publicly asked to promise to support and act on the party’s platform

The only platform-based political party in the country!

Political Transformation

• Abolish the congressional pork-barrel in any form/name

• Apply to everyone the Constitutional ban against relatives of incumbent government officials up to the third degree from seeking public office simultaneously or succeeding the former

• Disallow elected officials from appearing in movies, advertisements, billboards, as hosts or commentators on radio/television, writing in newspaper columns, etc.

• Make it unlawful for any member of the Senate or the House of Representatives to run for another office without first resigning from his/her position six months before the elections.

…Anyone wishing to renounce the difficult yet noble task of improving the lot of man in his totality, and of all people, with the excuse that the struggle is difficult and that constant effort is required, or simply because of the experience of defeat and the need to begin again, that person would be betraying the will of God the Creator.

Source: Sollicitudo rei socialis Encyclical Letter, Pope John Paul II, 1987