Kathryn Bernardo teams up with the COMELEC.
KATHRYN BERNARDO – The Kapamilya actress Kathryn Bernardo tapped by the COMELEC to encourage more women to run in the upcoming barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections.
Kathryn Bernardo is one of the brightest stars of her generation was chosen and tapped by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) as the new face of their pro-women campaign.
This is due to the upcoming barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections.
According to a report from the Philippine Star, the COMELEC stated that Kathryn is set to appear in a video to be released in April calling out more women to file their certificate of candidacy (COC).
The Comelec gender and development committee head Commissioner Rowena Guanzon said that she can inspire and influence more women to run public posts.
Due to prominence, she will probably be effective to influence the young people.
“They admire and follow her not only as an actor but as a role model,” Guanzon said.
“If women make up half the population, then it does logically follow that they should be just as involved in governance as men are. But as things stand, they aren’t,” says Comelec spokesman James Jimenez.
He noted that women should exercise their rights to run for a public post.
Jimenez then indicated that there are more female voters who are registered but there are more male officials who got elected.
“For gender equality, we hope there will be more women who will participate in the elections by running,” he said.
Accordingly, to the report, based on a data from the Comelec there were 212,922 female candidates in the 2013 barangay polls as compared to the 605,776 male bets where 86,377 females and 246,410 males won.
And in 2010, “a total of 263,587 girls ran in the SK polls compared to the 261,287 boys, resulting in 134,558 girls and 137,872 boys serving as SK officials.”
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