It’s not over for groups who fail to meet the required 2 percent of the total number of votes in the May 10 polls, as they still have a chance to get one seat if the winning groups cannot fill the more than 50 seats in Congress.
Under the party-list system, party-list representatives must comprise 20 percent of the House membership, which is about 57 seats.
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Spokesman James Jimenez said that as of press time, they cannot proclaim any group yet as they need to finish counting of all the votes to determine the 2 percent threshold.
“If you proclaim while the whole that you have is low, your two percent is correspondingly lower. You might qualify numerous groups. Then, if the total percentage of votes rose, your two percent will also rise. This might exclude some groups that you have earlier proclaimed winners,” he said.
Each winning organization is entitled to have a maximum of three seats depending on the percentage they will get. Two percent is equivalent to one seat.
In case the 57 seats have yet to be filled up by those who have met the required percentages, those groups/organizations running next in the race, despite not meeting the two percent requirement, will be allocated with one seat each.
He added that proclaming them now will put them in a tight situation since they would not want to risk having proclaimed certain organizations with the possibility of recalling them afterwards.
Marie A. Surbano with PNA
July 2025
Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
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July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
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5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
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28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
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Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
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Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
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Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
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First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
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