Jed Dayang and the Alliance for Youth Solidarity
(AYOS)
 YOUTH
leader Juan "Jed" Dayang Jr. urged the youth yesterday to help
enlighten the public about the party-list elections to be held for the
first time to ensure the attainment of the constitutional goal of equalizing
the people’s reperesentation in Congress.
Dayang, secretary-general of the Alliance for Youth Solidarity (AYOS),
noted that less than 50 days to the May 11 elections, very few are aware
of what the party-list elections is all about. This, he said, threatens
the successful implementation of the constitutional provision on party-list
representation.
AYOS is among the youth organizations accredited by the Commission
on Elections (COMELEC) to run for a sectoral seat in Congress under the
party-list system. According to Dayang, AYOS has by itself taken action
to promote public awareness of the party-list system by explaining in various
public gatherings the nature, mechanics and the objectives of the party-list
elections. " All young Filipinos who are concerned for a balance represenattion
of all sectors in Congress should take it upon themselves to enlighten
the public about this provision," Dayang said.
He prodded the youth to generate discussions about the party-list polls
in their respective communities for a start so that the party-list provision
of the Constitution would not go to waste. Dayang, 26, holds a master’s
degree in International Business Management (MBA), graduating with highest
honors at the Kyung Hee University of South Korea. He has also completed
a post-graduate course under the World Leadership Program of the United
Nations University Leadership Academy as a U.N. scholar in 1997.
While in Korea, he was the only foreigner to be ever elected president
of the supreme student council of Kyung Hee University. During his undergraduate
days, he was secretary-general of the San Beda College student council
and an active leader of the National Union of Students of the Philippines.
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VOLUME XVII NO. 13