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Pinatawag ni Bonget at Sara si Manang imee at digong..
nakapag desisyon na sila .
pinagusapan muna at pinagaralan lahat before silang magsabi sa dalawa..
besides yung dalawa is also an attorney mas magandang walang makitang butas sa pag takbo nila..
and they are also ready to tell them.. yung ilang taon na nilang tinago sa pamilya..
its not that they dont trust them mas inuna kasi nilang ayusin muna ang lahat..
naging advantage rin nila ang pandemic because of the secret moves that they're doing walang masyadong mata and critics na nakatingin..
"Ano na nagdecide na kayo? mag dedeadline na ng submission..!"
tanong ni manang
"yes.. pinagaralan pa namin pareho.. hindi ako tatakbo as president si bonget yung tatakbo"
sabi ni sara
"pero dai hindi ba dapat ikaw? mas malakas ka oh konte lang pero mas malakas mas sigurado tayo dito"
sabi naman ni digong .
"yan din sabi ko pa, but alam mo naman tong anak mo makulit.. so ako naman sumusunod lang jan"
sabi naman ni bonget..
"at first naisip din namin but ang awkward kasi.. si bonget tatakbo di ko kaya ng mas higher ako sa kanya.."
sabi ni inday
"saan ka mag congress kaba? or senate?"
sabi ni manang
"no we will be running together.. sya president ako VP"
sabi ni sara
na ikinagulat nung dalawa..
"mag teteam up kami for this.. kaya namin to pero theres one thing na dapat nyong malaman..
were married.... nung 2018.."
sabi ni bonget
"haaaa? bakit di namin alam?"
sabi ni manang
"putangina sabi ko na nga ba!.. ano ginagawa nyo?! bawal ito.. wala pang ganito sa pilipinas.. never heard of that.. pwede yan sa federal pero republican country ito"
sabi ni digong..
"mali ka jan digong.. pwede hindi lang masyadong napag aralan and again wala pang ganito sa pilipinas..we want to push federalism if kaya.. namin pero
Theoretically, it wouldn’t be particularly difficult. There are no laws against a party’s presidential nominee making their spouse be their running mate, as least not that I’m aware of, and if that husband-and-wife ticket won the election, then they’d become the president and vice president. So it wouldn’t take some convoluted series of events - it could be done through the regular presidential election process.
Of course, this would actually be extremely unlikely in the United States. I do think most voters would be pretty suspicious of a presidential candidate who proposed to have their spouse be their designated successor. While Americans are obviously willing to have members of the same family be in public service (though handwringing about American “dynasties” are in my opinion overblown), I don’t think they’d go for the idea that spouses could directly succeed each other, any more than they’d go for a father and son being president and vice president together, or two siblings. Political families are okay; outright monarchical succession plans are not. Such arrangements are common in less developed democracies - consider the way in which former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner was succeeded by his wife, Cristina Fernandez, or the suggestion that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe could be succeeded by his wife.
Consider that Hillary Clinton is having to deal with allegations that she constitutes the second part of a dynasty, despite the fact that her husband has been out of office for 16 years, that she’s spent a good part of those 16 years in other public offices in her own right, and that if she wins their administrations will be separated by two different eight-year presidencies representing both major parties. If Hillary had tried to directly succeed Bill in 2000, or if she’d been made his running mate in 1996,
