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The entry of former Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman representing “AA Ka Sosyo party-list” in the House of Representatives was questioned yesterday on the ground that Pangandaman had deceived the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and the government when he continued to be at the DAR when he should have left the agency when he joined…

MANILA, Philippines – Thirty-two party-list representatives, accompanied by Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr., paid a courtesy call on President Aquino in Malacañang yesterday.

A party-list representative last Monday night accused the Commission on Elections (Comelec) of conspiring with a losing party-list candidate to unseat and have him replaced.

FIFTY-TWO party-list lawmakers on Tuesday opposed the convening of a constituent assembly to amend the Constitution, saying they feared their positions would be abolished.

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The Supreme Court (SC) has turned down six suits questioning the constitutionality of Republic Act (RA) 9372, otherwise known as the Human Security Act of 2007.

FORMER President and now Rep. Gloria Arroyo of Pampanga will have more allies in Congress after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has proclaimed the party-list group of her cousin to sit in the House of Representatives. This was after the Comelec en banc issued a Certificate of Proclamation to party-list group Association of Laborers and…

The Commission on Elections has affirmed the victory of three more party-list groups in the May 10 elections.

MANILA, Philippines – The Akbayan party-list group is calling for the ouster of Alfonso Cusi as director general of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) due to his alleged links to former First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo and his being a “midnight appointee.”

Editor’s note: The Manila Times today publishes the fifth part of the serialization of Mr. Monsod’s assessment of the May 2010 automated polls. The assessment was delivered on November 9, 2010, at the Ateneo de Manila Rockwell campus in Rockwell, Makati City, as a lecture, under the Jaime V. Ongpin Foundation Lecture Series.

WHY bite the hand that feeds? Party-list Rep. Teodoro Casiño of Bayan Muna sees this as the reason why the Akbayan party-list group made a sudden turnaround on its stand—from being a harsh critic of the controversial P21.9-billion conditional cash-transfer (CCT) program that is included in the House-approved P1.645-trillion 2011 budget to one of its most…

A neophyte party-list lawmaker yesterday sought amendments to the Labor Code particularly on the provisions about security of tenure and contractualization of workers.

MANILA, Philippines—By dangling P15 million in additional funds to party-list lawmakers, House leaders should not expect them to drop their opposition to the Aquino administration’s P21-billion conditional cash transfer (CCT) program and P15-billion public-private partnership program (PPPP) under the 2011 national budget.

MANILA, Philippines—Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. has thumbed down the demand of some party-list representatives to be given an additional P50 million in pork barrel following the decision to provide the amount to regular members of the House of Representatives starting next year.

PUBLIC Works Secretary Rogelio Singson on Friday promised P50 million in projects to 57 party-list lawmakers who demanded “equal treatment and a sense of parity” with congressmen who received additional funding for their districts, but House leaders balked at the offer, saying it would set “a bad precedent.”

AKBAYAN, a party-list group allied with President Benigno Aquino III, was granted a P4.05-billion fund for its marginalized constituents in agrarian reform communities Thursday, lawmakers said.

MANILA, Philippines— (UPDATE) Senators unanimously adopted on Wednesday a resolution urging President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to immediately suspend all the “unusually large and apparently excessive allowances, bonuses, incentives and other perks of the governing boards” of government owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) as well as of government financial institutions (GFIs)

PRESS RELEASE HON. RAYMOND DEMOCRITO C. MENDOZA SW-204, House of Representatives, Tel. 951-3011 Trade Union Congress Party (TUCP Party-List) TUCP-PGEA Compound, Maharlika cor. Masaya Streets, Diliman, Quezon City Telephone Number: 351-3757 09 August 2010 Labor solon backs pilots resignation: Hits PAL for unfair labor practice Trade Union Congress Party Rep. Raymond Democrito C. Mendoza expressed…

The COMELEC continues to have a badly damaged reputation simply because most of its collective decisions seem to go beyond ordinary human imagination even if stretched to the limit. Its recent ruling on the Ang Galing Pinoy Party list nominee who will assume a seat in the House of Representatives is the latest example of…

That silly party-list system will have to go, sometime in the near future, because clearly, it has been abused through the years, and will continue to be abused — even by the so-called “cause-oriented groups.”

The framers of our Constitution and those who conceived the party-list system in our country had the best intention to guarantee that only those “truly belonging to marginalized and underrepresented sectors, such as labor, peasants, fisherfolk, urban poor, indigenous cultural communities, elderly, handicapped, women, youth, veterans, overseas workers and professionals” represent these sectors.

MANILA, Philippines—Three more party-list groups were proclaimed winners in the May 10 polls by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Monday but their first nominees still can’t take their seats when Congress opens on Monday.

MANILA, Philippines—The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has ruled that the two nominees of Ang Kasangga party-list group cannot sit in the House of Representatives because they are not members of the marginalized sector.

LEGAZPI CITY: The Commission on Election (Comelec) finally junked the petition filed by the militant organizations in Bicol led by Bayan Muna against the Ako Bicol (AKB), a homegrown regional political party in the province. In a 15-page decision written by Nicodemo Ferrer, the poll body dismissed the petition for disqualification filed by Bayan Muna…

MANILA, Philippines — President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III will issue his first State of the Nation Address in front of an incomplete Congress on July 26.

THE COMMISSION on Elections (Comelec) has proclaimed 33 party-list representatives that will represent 26 organizations in the 15th Congress except presidential son Juan Miguel M. Arroyo who is still facing a disqualification case.

At first glance, it seems that the left suffered something of a setback in the recent elections. For example, not only did Bayan Muna slip in the rankings (as did most the left groups), but it lost votes. However, such a conclusion would be incorrect. Any overall decline was not absolute but relative and, as…

Election lawyer Romulo Macalintal is pushing for the overhaul of the apparently flawed party-list system, saying it needs to be more attuned to the spirit by which it had been enshrined in the Constitution.

MANILA, Philippines – Contrary to public perception, even members of the militant bloc of the House of Representatives belong to the millionaires’ club, based on their annual statements of assets, liabilities and net worth. Representatives Satur Ocampo of Bayan Muna and Liza Maza of women’s group Gabriela – who both lost in the May 10…

MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo’s sister-in-law is among the richest party-list lawmakers in the House of Representatives.