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Candid Candidates: A Special Election Features Series

In partnership with the online publication Fascinating Features, Today’s Carolinian is proud to present ‘Candid Candidates’, a special series of articles highlighting candidates running in the May 2022 elections. Leading up to Election Day, both publications will be sharing features that hope to shed light on the personal stories and motivations that built the candidates’ aspirations to become leaders of the Philippines.

This series will feature national candidates — from Ka Leody de Guzman to Risa Hontiveros — to discuss pressing issues facing the Filipino people and their platforms to address those issues. Also, through these features, we are showcasing parts of their lives and values that we consider to be underrepresented in the current political conversation.

As both Today’s Carolinian and Fascinating Features are based in Cebu, we will also feature local candidates to give voters an informed choice when choosing the leaders who will be directly impacting their day-to-day lives.

Candid Candidates can only be possible with the talents and dedication of student journalists from several publications in Cebu, who conducted the interviews and wrote the features of this project. This was an opportunity for them to not only exhibit their prowess in writing and story-telling but also delve deeper into the feature-writing and interviewing aspects of journalism that Fascinating Features and Today’s Carolinian champion.