Party List

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) may not be able to proclaim the 22 other winning party-list groups this month, an official said yesterday.

The late Butil Party representative Ka Nellie Chavez did so many things in her life in a great and quiet way, mostly for the coop movement and the peasantry. But what she was proudest of was rejecting the legal ordure called the Con-Ass. On the day she refused to sign that trash of a resolution.…

THE Elections Commission has declared the first 34 congressmen who will represent 27 organizations that won under the Party-list system in the May 10 elections.

MANILA, Philippines—Three women and two men claiming to have strong connections for securing party-list seats at P10 million to P15 million each were arrested in an entrapment operation at a hotel in Manila by the National Bureau of Investigation Thursday.

A coalition of party-list groups asked Tuesday the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to proclaim all the winning party-list candidates by Friday instead of only a few leading party-list representatives in the race.

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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.

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has been swamped with disqualification cases and other electoral protests a few days after the country held its first automated elections.

As a voter in my barangay in Metro Manila, I was delighted to receive yesterday an official sample ballot for the national elections on May 10.

THE AKO BICOL Party (AKB) has snatched the top spot from the militant Bayan Muna among 13 party-list groups likely to secure at least one seat at the House of Representatives, a final BusinessWorld-Social Weather Stations (SWS) Pre-Election Survey showed.

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Conclusion Based on reports ABS-CBN 2 submitted to the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the party-list group AAPS, or the Association of Administrators, Professionals, and Seniors (formerly known as the Association of Retired Teachers or ART according to the group’s website) had already secured ad spots with the network giant until May 8, 2010, the end…

MANILA, Philippines – Pulse Asia reported yesterday that its latest survey showed that 14 out of 187 party-list groups running in the May 10 elections have statistical chances of winning congressional seats.

THE horribly costly air war for the presidency has in recent weeks ceased being the exclusive domain of moneyed politicians and political parties.

Starting today, The STAR is running a series on the party list organizations and their nominees, based on official records submitted to the Comelec.

About two weeks ago, I received a bookbound copy of an academic thesis done by a fourth year high school student from Our Lady of Guadalupe Minor Seminary in Novaliches, Quezon City. It was a research about The Philippine Party-List System in the 14th Congress: A Study.

MANILA, Philippines – Twelve party-list groups have statistical chances of winning seats in the House of Representatives in the May 10 elections, with Bayan Muna leading the list of probable winners, according to the latest BusinessWorld-Social Weather Stations (SWS) Pre-Election Survey.

THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS HAS virtually declared the party-list system a “free market” to include the ruling elite. Given Comelec Chair Jose Melo’s very “mata-pobre” (condescending) opinion that marginalized groups do not have educated leaders who are capable of leading their organizations, the party-list system has ceased to be a legal and humane intervention for…

THIRTY-TWO party-list organizations remain unrecognized by the Commission on Elections because of unresolved cases, less than three weeks before the May 10 polls, the commission said Tuesday.

When Filipinos go to the polls on Monday, May 10, we will be selecting one out of nine candidates for president, one out of 10 candidates for vice president, 12 out of 61 candidates for senator, plus, depending on where we live, a congressman, a governor and/or mayor, vice governor, and/or vice mayor, not to…

Regarding our proposal to boycott party-list groups of dubious legitimacy or whose nominees are discredited politicians or scheming operators, we received a plea that Mindanao party-lists be given a fair chance.

MANILA, Philippines – With only a few weeks left before the elections, six out of 10 Filipinos are still unaware of the party-list system, a latest survey by Pulse Asia revealed yesterday.

Councilor Angela Librado-Trinidad yesterday criticized the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) Party-list for making Anflo Management and Investment Corporation (Anflocor) executive vice president Anthony Sasin its second nominee.

MANILA, Philippines – Former energy secretary Angelo Reyes is one of eight alleged allies of President Arroyo who could win a seat in the House of Representatives as nominees of party-list groups with links to the Arroyo administration, results of the latest Pulse Asuia survey revealed Thursday.

A Davaoeño has been declared the second nominee of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) party-list in its 2010 congressional bid.

The current to-do about what constitutes a genuine party-list group or representative is another instance of the law of unintended consequences operating, which seems to take its toll disproportionately on human beings armed only with good intentions and nothing but.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Two supporters of the Bantay party-list group of Rep. Jovito Palparan were found dead in separate places in the region on Good Friday, more than two weeks after they were abducted in this city.

Fragmented parties an obstacle to victory MANILA, Philippines – The sheer number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) can send more than 1 representative to Congress. In the past party-list elections, many groups, both land- and sea-based, have attempted to win seats, but have so far failed to get the needed votes to propel their representatives…

NEGATIVE VOTE: A politician friend offered what looks like a partial solution to our dilemma of boycotting party-lists with dubious nominees but, in so doing, merely improving their chances of winning seats in the House of Representatives.

When it comes to the perks of being a lawmaker, party-list representatives are no different from congressional district representatives.