My Interview With Atty Francis Tolentino

I had the privilege to interview Atty. Francis Tolentino, who is running for senator in the 2016 Philippine Election. Mr. Tolentino was the Mayor of Tagaytay City from 1995 to 2004 and was the President of League of Cities of the Philippines from 2001 to 2004 and EVP of the Union of Local Authorites of the Philippines. Mr. Tolentino was the Chairman of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA).

Atty Francis Tolentino, Senatorial Candidate 2016 Philippine Election

It was a panel interview with different sets of bloggers from Metro Manila. Expected that someone would throw a question about traffic in Metro Manila but we would also like to know his thought on other national issues aside from the traffic. I would just mention Atty Tolentino's proposals and platform as a senatorial candidate. His platform is also focused on helping improve the quality of lives of Filipino families in rural areas.

• Propose that children in school automatically become direct beneficiaries of PhilHealth and educational health insurance as an effective way of investing in their future.
• He stand for the greater participation and empowerment of women in the labor force to unleash their full potential for economic development.
• Provide jobs in rural areas so that people would not flock in Manila.
• Have a working rural hospitals with facilities for emergency and major medical cases. 
• Provide proper compensation and benefits to health care workers in the rural areas.
• Provide health insurance.

Atty Francis Tolentino Platform:

• Increase the allocation of Internal Revenue allotment based on performance and its automatic release to local government units.
• Create a Police Youth Reserve Corps to help in peace and order and disaster response
• Establish community airports in support of tourism
• Create a Philippine Urban Development Commission that will work closely with LGUs to promote the concept of planned cities that will prevent the problems experience in Metropolitan Manila from happening elsewhere.
• Propose that the National Government allocate funds to a Community Rehabilitation/Recovery Trust Funds for LGUs.
• Propose the practice of responsible mining coupled with assured revenues for host communities to be used for community development projects. 

Atty Francis Tolentino is running for senator in the 2016 Philippine Election. What are your thoughts about Francis Tolentino?