Party List

The ballot for the May 2010 elections will be the longest in Philippine history. Aside from the candidates for President and Vice President all the way down to city or municipal councilors, we will also be choosing from 144 party list contenders that have been accredited by the Comelec.

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) has affirmed the disqualification of 10 party-list groups from running in the May 10 elections.

A youth group has filed a disqualification case against four party-list groups for allegedly using the party-list system to push their own ideological and political agenda.

COTABATO City: A party-list group that was accredited recently by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) was denounced as being “organized mainly for the benefit of the Ampatuans.”

Even in his youth, Danton Remoto knew that he wasn’t allowed to run away from a fight. His father, an honor-bound military man, was against that. And in his small but charming home cramped with books, souvenirs and unfinished manuscripts, this journalist, poet and educator could still recall what his old man used to say—the…

MANILA, Philippines – Militant group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) yesterday questioned the accreditation by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) of nine administration-linked party-list groups, saying the administration may be creating a “power block” in Congress to push Charter change.

MANILA, Philippines—The Supreme Court has dismissed with finality the petition of the overseas workers’ group Migrante to be allowed to participate in this year’s elections as a party-list group.

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) accredited on Tuesday six more partylist groups for the elections in May, bringing the total of competing sectors to 150, a spokesman for the poll body said.

Poll officials have begun screening the nominees of 144 party-list groups that will vie for at least 55 seats in the House of Representatives.

Two groups have asked the Supreme Court (SC) to step in in their cases and direct the Commission on elections (Comelec) to overturn its decision to remove them from its official list of accredited party-list organizations that are allowed to run in the congressional elections in May.

MANILA, Philippines – Two party-list groups asked the Supreme Court yesterday to allow them to participate in the May 10 elections after being disqualified by the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

MANILA, Philippines—The ballot to be used in the country’s first automated polls in May could end up being as long as two and a half feet and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is hard pressed to make it shorter.

1. 1-AANI 2. 1-Aangat Pilipino (1-AK) 3. 1ST Consumers Alliance for Rural Energy (1-CARE) 4. 1-Ako Babaing Astig Aasenso (1-ABAA) 5. 1Guardians Nationalist of the Philippines

The Supreme Court on Tuesday told the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to put a group representing lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) back on the list of accredited party-list names that may run in the 2010 elections. It issued a temporary restraining order enjoining the Comelec from implementing its resolution denying the application for accreditation…

MANILA, Philippines – Gay party-list group Ang Ladlad is still intent on asking the Supreme Court (SC) to review the case for their party-list accreditation.

Saying that there seems to be an influx of party-list groups gearing to win a seat in the House of Representatives, a high-ranking official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said that the poll body might only approve one-third of the total number of party-list petitioners. Comelec Commissioner Nicodemo Ferrer said that there might only…

MANILA, Philippines – Only a third of the 306 party-list groups that filed for candidacy in the 2010 elections can actually run, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said.

MANILA, Philippines – Party-list groups should now come out of their closets. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has ordered all party-list organizations taking part in the May 2010 elections to make public their nominees.

MANILA, Philippines – The First Division of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) denied yesterday the petitions of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) and the union of government employees Courage for accreditation of party-list groups in the May 2010 polls, citing the lack of constituents. In two separate resolutions, First Division presiding commissioner Rene Sarmiento…

MANILA, Philippines – Gays and lesbians cannot be considered marginalized in society because they are already “overly represented” in Congress, a Commission on Elections (Comelec) official said yesterday.

In 2007, Ang Ladlad, a group fighting for the welfare of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders was denied party-list accreditation by the Commission on Elections on the grounds that it didn’t have national representation. The Comelec required proof that there were lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people across the land. The denial, based on technicality,…

MANILA, Philippines – After being rejected by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the second time around, Ang Ladlad party-list, which represents homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender individuals has found an ally in the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), which is likely to file a Motion for Intervention as it supports the group’s plea for reconsideration.

MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Joker Arroyo came to the defense of Ang Ladlad, a gay organization whose petition for party-list status was junked by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on grounds of “immorality.”

MANILA, Philippines – Militant party-list lawmakers Satur Ocampo, Teddy Casiño and Liza Maza pulled out their application for accreditation of a joint political party before the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

MARIVELES, Bataan: President Gloria Arroyo on Sunday launched a component of the multimillion-peso Bataan Information Hub (iHub) project at the Mariveles National High School with an eye to getting all public high schools in the country connected to the Internet.

AFTER railing against the evils of pork barrel, leftwing lawmakers yesterday demanded to know why they failed to receive their P70 million yearly allocation.

The number of accredited party-list groups has been trimmed down to 35 after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) lopped off 26 of them for failing to achieve a prime requirement to retain accreditation.

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) delisted yesterday 25 organizations from the official list of registered sectoral party-list groups for failing to get sufficient votes in the 2007 elections.

Speaker Prospero Nograles yesterday hit at militant party-list lawmakers who have been criticizing the government for its alleged slow action to help the victims of Tropical Storm “Ondoy” and Typhoon “Pepeng,” saying they should stop blaming the administration and instead help out in the efforts to provide relief to those affected by the calamity.