Loading ...The Pinoy Expats Auto Club in Emirates (PEACE) and Filipino Offroad Auto Club (FORAC) are offering free transport service this Friday, August 28, to their compatriots who want to register as overseas absentee voters (OAV) at the Philippine Consulate General in Al Ghusais, Dubai.
Both clubs will dispatch their members to pick up future voters from 9 to 10 am at the following areas: Al Attar Shopping Mall in Karama; Lal’s Supermarket in Satwa; Philippine Supermarket in Murraqabat; Ibn Battuta (fastfood parking area) in Jebel Ali; Mega Mall (facing main road) in Sharjah; and Atlas Mall (back entrance area) in Rolla, Sharjah.
According to the Philippine Consulate General, Filipinos are advised to bring photocopies of their passports. Those who have casted their votes in the 2007 mid-term senatorial elections still need to register. The registration period will be up to August 31 only, from 9 am to 3 pm.
The OAV’s will be able to choose their country’s next president, vice-president, 12 senators and party-list representative in May 2010.
“This will be one of the rare opportunities for us who are based overseas to have a direct participation in our country’s political process. Everyone should exercise their right of suffrage and elect the right leaders who can really steer the Philippines into becoming a politically mature and economically progressive nation,” explains Art Los Banos, a Dubai-based PR consultant who has a Political Science degree.
Historically, individual votes are crucial to the 12th and 13th placer in the senatorial elections. The 12th senator is usually proclaimed eventual winner several weeks after the elections.
Los Banos, who has participated as an OAV during the May 2004 and May 2007 elections, added: “You will feel guilty if your own province mate lost by a few votes because you failed to register and vote.”
The PEACE and FORAC hotlines are 050-3516729 and 050-7456452. Both auto clubs have been initiating other civic activities in the UAE such as fund-raising efforts for poor families needing decent homes in the Philippines through the Gawad Kalinga community development program.
For more information:
050-3516729 050-9031204
Lou Natanawan Liza Conception
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