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MANILA (3rd UPDATE) – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced on Tuesday it is allowing party-list groups Akbayan and Bayan Muna to run in the 2013 elections. Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes said the the commissioners voted 4-2-1. The four who voted in favor are Comissioners Christian Robert Lim, Elias Yusoph, Rene Sarmiento and Armando Velasco.

THE Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday stopped the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from dropping four party-list groups and disqualifying them from joining the elections next year.

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) stopped the Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday from implementing its decision disqualifying four party-list groups from the midterm polls in 2013.

The Commission on Elections has rejected 22 more party-list organizations, bringing to 50 the total number of party-list organizations it has barred from joining next year’s mid-term elections. Disqualified were the Philippine Coconut Producers Federation Inc. (Cocofed), Alliance of Advocates in Mining Advancement for National Progress (Aama), Bayani Partylist, Abang-Lingkod, Ang Agrikulture Natin Isulong, Agapay…

A Senate panel plans to define who are marginalized and underrepresented and who should be allowed to participate in the party-list system. “There is no bill pending before my committee attempting to define the word marginalized and the word and underrepresented [so] we’ll come up with our own in order to improve the party-list law,”…

Party-list groups are in a quandary as to the logic behind the ruling of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) disqualifying them. They also questioned the logic of allowing them to finish their terms when they supposedly do not have any sector to represent. But after former Comelec Chairman Christian Monsod defended Ako Bicol party-list, the…

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has disqualified 19 more party-list groups from joining the 2013 polls. The groups include the Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD), Cocofed Philippine Coconut Producers Federation Inc. (COCOFED), Alliance of Advocates in Mining Advancement For National Progress (AAMA), Bayani Partylist (Bayani), Abang Lingkod Inc., Ang Agrikultura Natin…

DISQUALIFIED party-list group Ako Bicol (AKB) has found an ally in former Elections chairman Christian Monsod who said that there is no prohibition in the Constitution that prevents the rich from serving in party-list groups to represent the marginalized sector.

Two party-list groups representing electricity consumers and 20 others have been dropped from the roster of organizations qualified to take part in the 2013 midterm congressional elections.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday disqualified two incumbent party-list groups supposedly representing the energy sector from participating in the party-list derby next year.

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday disqualified 13 party-list groups, including the top performing organization in the 2010 elections.

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has added two more party-list representatives to the growing membership of the House of Representatives. The Comelec qualified the two even as it tries to trim down the list of legitimate party-list groups that it would allow to participate in the May 2013 congressional-local elections.

MANILA, Philippines – A frontrunner in the 2010 party-list elections has been barred from taking part in next year’s polls by the Commission on Elections (Comelec), which ruled that it does not represent any marginalized sector.

Ako Bicol Assails Comelec For Using Party-List As Test Case The Commission on Elections (Comelec) disqualified yesterday the Ako Bicol (AKB) party and 12 other party-list groups from participating in the May 2013 polls. Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes, in an interview, said they are denying the participation of AKB in next year’s polls mainly because…

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said yesterday that some party-list groups seeking to participate in the May 2013 midterm polls have nominees who are relatives. Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes said that after reviewing the track records and background of party-list nominees, they found out that three to five groups have nominees belonging…

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections has no choice but to remove the Ang Galing Pinoy (AGP) from its list of accredited party-list organizations, Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes reported yesterday.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has removed a stumbling block for those opposing the participation of questionable party-list groups and nominees in the 2013 elections by allowing them to register their concern even informally with only a letter.

It’s the same old political story. The Party-list system in the Philippines serves the interests of political personalities or political allies who are either no longer eligible to run for district seats ater serving some nine terms in the House of Representatives or are allies of both the opposition and the administration who, however, cannot…

ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio yesterday urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to give the public freer access to records submitted by organizations wishing to participate in the 2013 party-list elections because as it is, their system is prone to corruption and abuse.

Manila, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has asked people alleging that fixers are operating at the poll body to substantiate their claims.

MANILA, Philippines – Despite opposition from some lawmakers, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will not alphabetize the list of party-list groups on ballots in next year’s elections. Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes said the alphabetized system is confusing.

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Manila, Philippines – Party-list groups may just have to rely on luck to get to the top of the list in ballots and get more attention from voters, as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has decided to do away with the system of listing their names in alphabetical order beginning in the 2013 polls.

This early, it is commendable of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to cleanse their official registry of dubious and not exactly marginalized sectors of Philippine society as envisioned by our Constitution to be recognized as party-list organization. If Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes would have his way, the poll body seeks to reduce party-list groups to…

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said yesterday it will thoroughly screen the nominees of party-list organizations that will run in the 2013 midterm polls to flush out dubious groups.

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said yesterday that party-list organizations have until May 31 to file a “manifestation of intent” to participate in the 2013 mid-term polls.

A party-list group has dropped from its membership rolls its representative in the Lower House after reneging on a term-sharing agreement with the group’s second nominee.

MANILA, Philippines – The availability of jobs and steady source of income remains one of the country’s biggest challenges today. That is why Philex Mining Corp., which is committed to providing thousands of Filipino workers adequate jobs, particularly in the rural areas, have earned commendation from the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP).

The other day, officials of the Batino Elementary School in Quirino District in Quezon City approached a member of the media asking that they be assisted in finding sponsors to have their new school building finished.

MANILA, Philippines – A party-list lawmaker is facing graft charges for allegedly diverting portions of his pork barrel funds to build a hotel in a privately owned resort in Laguna and finance a protest rally against the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill.