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The 1940 Presidential Elections were held at the worst moment. Three parties presented their respective candidates for the different national elective positions. There were the Filipino Liberty and Nationalist party (FLAN), the Populists League for Unity, Temperance and Organization (PLUTO) and the Social Liberal Unitarian Taxpayers party (SLUT). The FLAN had incumbents Juan Diego de La Vega and Pieter Buencamino as their candidates for president and vice-president, respectively. The SLUT party chose Ronaldo Jeremias and Pedro Norte for the same positions. On the other hand, the standard bearers of the PLUTO were Senators Felipe Macadandang and Elpidio Qurino. While similar to the United States in regard to the Executive, with a President and a Vice-President being elected by popular vote, the Philippines was different in that the Vice-President was voted in a different ballot separated from the President.

On October 27th 1940, President de La Vega delivered a speech while on campaign in Cebu City where he accused Senator Macadandang and his followers “of fanning the flames of discontent among the people, of capitalizing on the people’s hardship on these times of war, and of minimizing the accomplishment of my Administration. These tumultuous times ask for men that have the experience to lead, not young men with Messiah complex with no idea of how to bring this current problem to an end acceptable to the Filipino people. Senator Macadandang does not have the experience to lead this nation and that is the bottom line.”

Senator Macadandang’s response on a radio address from Rizal City on November 2nd 1940 was a severe critique of the President’s handling of the situation in regard to the Spratleys Crisis. “Why is the President in Cebu City while a War, yes, a War is going on? What kind of leadership a former Admiral is giving to his Armed Forces when is away from the events occurring? We would not be in the current situation if he had refused the initial Chinese offer of a so-called Co-Dominium in 1936. Instead now we are fighting four years later to recover Filipino territory, a situation that could had been averted if not by his stupidity. People! We rejected his mandate in 1932, only to bring him back to power in 1936 after the man that succeeded him was even worse than he was. But let me assure you that change is needed. The Satsuma experiment is over and the future should be bright if we reject the past…”

Should it not be something like the Populists League for Unity, Temperance and Organization (PLUTO)?

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Originally posted by Rooijen10
Should it not be something like the Populists League for Unity, Temperance and Organization (PLUTO)?

DF can give you a brief explanation of what a [Mod Edit] is. is more of a mexican slang.

Profanity/obscenity is more accurate. If that's what you're trying to evoke, I'll have to put my Mod hat on and ask you to reconsider it.

The election celebrated on November 8th 1940 was generally peaceful and orderly except in some places where passions ran high, especially in the islands of Luzon, Palawan and Cebu that have suffered more due to the current conflict with China. A total of 2,218,847 voters went to the polls to elect their President and Vice President, a new record of register voters exercising their right to vote.

Four days after election-day, the Pluto party candidates were proclaimed victors. Macadandang registered an overwhelming majority of votes in 34 provinces. Likewise, his party won nine out of 16 contested senatorial seats. In the House of Representatives, the Pluto won an overwhelming majority with 50 seats while the Flan and the Slut only got 33 and 6 seats, respectively.

In his victory speech, President elect Macadandang stated “...The people has spoken. The time of to follow a new direction is at hand. But first we have to end this fight with China.... but let me tell you all that we will not accept anything less that the total withdraw of Chinese military personnel of Filipino soil. That is the bottom line...”