Let It Be Resolved That: The Government Should Subsidize Political Parties To Strengthen the Party System

Square Off:The CVC Law Debates

	Affirmative/DLSU	Negative/St. Louies
Necessity	Ira Pozon	Analyn Avila
Beneficality	Mary Lim	Kris Cayabyab
Practicability	Michael Galarosa	Yasmine Tadeo

	Affirmative/DLSU	Negative/St. Louies
Necessity	This motion will: democritizes the party system, allowing all eligible candidates to campaign minimize corruption, how candidates with connections have more funds enable the party system to mature into a legitimate force In status quo, elections are wealth driven and are a popularity contest. The policy will allow the parties to concentrate on their platforms than on their popularity.	Will financing strengthen the weak parties?No, because: there is no sufficient public trust parties will not learn how to spend responsibly
Beneficality	The benefits of this policy are: the removal of barriers during elections, like money and what follows the emergence of more choices for elections he reduction of quotas in spending for campaigning The reduction of overdependence on private contributions which comes with heavy strings attached the ability of parties to focus on more important things like platforms, instead of just getting their name heard the emergence of a merit-based election instead of a personality-based election	The policy is detrimental on three levels: political parties- coming from our government,speaking realistically, funds would be insufficient and a second source of funds would still be required public- the government will be empowered to distribute funds eradically, the publicdo not even choose who parties would be eligible for candidacy and funding corruption-the funds can be corrupted, and there can still be voluntary contributions
Practicability	The policy is practicable because: there is no provision against it in the constitution there are various modes of getting funds without affecting public services it is a progressive step towards reform	The policy is inpracticable because: how each party will be funded is questionable there are more important issues that need our funding, and as a country with debt, the public cannot afford to spend on an issue that does not contribute to society as much as the healthcare problem or the educational problem.