This is the working draft of the Guidelines on electoral tactical alliance & monitoring for MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) through a process called GREEN RATING-SCORECARD & GREEN COVENANT CAMPAIGN. For discussion and comments. This will be finalized in the 1st National Assembly proposed for April 22, 2021
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1. Concept
Until such time that MAKAKALIKASAN is in a position to field its own candidates we always have the option to support members that are running in local or perhaps even national positions whom the Party can choose to support. We can also enter into a tactical coalition to support non-member candidates (regardless if running as an independent or representing a party or coalition). Just the same it is incumbent upon the Party to guide the voting public who among the local and national candidates carries the GREEN AGENDA and should be endorsed as such. This opportunity to rate national candidates based on the Party's 15-point GREEN AGENDA also opens up an opportunity to invite citizens groups to join the party and together sign a covenant with those rated high as "green national candidates" so we can be in a better position to exact accountability from these candidates, especially if they do get elected in the next few years of their term. On the part of the candidate, this rating and covenant process provides them a 3rd party endorsement process that will prove beneficial in positioning themselves among the natural constituencies of the greens. 2. Components 2.1. Green Rating The Party will formulate a set of questions based on our 15-point Green Governance Agenda and will invite all potential candidates to be nominated through the Green Peoples Primary Elections process of the Party to answer them and join our green rating process. The rating will be done by a group of Party members from local chapters nationwide (geographical balance will be pursued) in partnership with other sectoral leaders from these localities whom the party will invite. Those ratings will use a common rating tool to be designed by the MAKAKALIKASAN Green Governance Policy Center. 2.1. Green Covenant The top 5 coming out of the rating for any position will be identified as a result of the local and nationwide rating process. They will then be invited to a process to sign a covenant with the Party and all the other citizens organizations who joined the rating process. The covenant will include all specific political positions that the candidate committed to include in his/her platform agenda for implementation during his/her term once elected. The covenant signing process will be done through a high-profile media event designed to present these candidates as the greenest of all the candidates. 2.3. Endorsement and Joint Campaigning The greenest candidates will be invited by the Party to enter into an electoral alliance with us or us entering into alliance with them if they have a pre-existing one; whichever is the case. We will offer to mobilize local party groups, where these local & national candidates are running to actively campaign for these greenest national candidates. Funding complementation schemes will be offered these candidates to benefit the local campaign of the party leaders running locally 2.4. Implementation Stages Part 1 - Preparatory Stage. Development of tools such as the green agenda questionnaire and rating tool. Orientation of local rating bodies. Setting up of local network of citizens groups willing to join the Party in the rating process Part 2 - Public promotions and campaign launch. Campaign launching event (media event) Part 3 - Invitation to candidates to join the rating. This will be done by responding to the questionnaire and signing the agreement with PKI to be subjected to the rating Part 4 - Rating process. Responses to the questionnaire will be posted on the Party website and sent to the local rating bodies. Rating sessions to be conducted and results promoted widely to multiple-media (both local and national). Local and a national forum will be organize to announce the final consolidated results Part 5 - Green Covenant negotiations. This will be between the top 5 candidates and the Party and the green rating coalition formed out of all participating citizens groups. These covenants should identify specific policy and implementation agenda that all parties are willing to collaborate together to implement after the elections during the term of the next elected officials. As the individual and collective covenants with the greenest national candidates are drawn up, a climax high profile event with maximize multiple media exposure will be held where the Party and the green rating coalition will present to the public the LOCAL & NATIONAL GREEN CANDIDATES. Part 6 - Joint Electoral Alliance. Starting with the top rated candidates, MAKAKALIKASAN will pursue individual joint electoral alliance for joint complementary campaigning targeting the last leg of the campaign period in the local areas where party members are running or concentrating on. MOA for the electoral alliance to be readied. Part 7 - Continuing Green Rating. After elections, the Party will continue to monitor the performance of the national candidates who top the Green Rating based on the signed Green Covenant. This monitoring will be done every six (6) months starting June after the election for the rest of the 3-year term. The Party will issue a scorecard every 6 months to the public for the reach of the local national politicians being monitored. |