gmanews.tv: Youth party-list goes ‘egg-hunting’ for honest elections
Kabataan party-list, the sole youth party-list group in the May elections, marked Easter Sunday with an “Egg-hunt for the Youth’s Aspirations for the Mid-term Elections” in Old Balara, Quezon City.
The event was held in cooperation with Danton Remoto, congressional candidate for Quezon City’s third district and a prominent advocate of “LGBT” (lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgendered) rights.
Remoto and the Kabataan members unveiled colorful makeshift eggs painted with the words ‘education’, ‘employment’, ‘equal rights’, ‘good governance’ and ‘clean and honest elections.’
Residents of Old Balara, an urban poor enclave, had earlier hidden the “eggs” in various places.
In a statement, Raymond Palatino, Kabataan national president and nominee, said: “This year, we mark Easter Sunday, the day of the Resurrection of Christ, with the youth’s hopes and aspirations for the upcoming elections.”
“We echo the Supreme Court’s appeal to our fellow youth to exercise the right to vote in order to put forward our interests and fervent prayers for a better future,” he added.
“This is also to symbolize the ‘resurrection’ of the youth and truly marginalized voices in government. We need fresh and refreshing changes in governance. It is time to usher in new faces, new voices and new platforms in Congress,” Palatino said, referring to Remoto.
Palatino said that one of Kabataan’s main advocacies is the advancement of “equal rights and opportunities regardless of age, sex or gender.” - GMANews.TV