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Makabayan solons want partylist system law amended

By Dennis Carcamo | February 5, 2014 - 3:40pm

 Makabayan bloc legislators have sought to amend the partylist system to ensure that the marginalized and underrepresented sectors of society get a seat in the House of Representatives.

Headlines

SC: Party lists need not be marginalized

By Edu Punay | April 6, 2013 - 1:00am

 The party-list system is not limited to marginalized groups, and the system must be opened even to regional and national...

Headlines

SC: Party-list groups need not be 'marginalized'

By Camille Diola | April 5, 2013 - 5:01pm

The Supreme Court ordered the Commission on Elections on Friday to reevaluate the accreditation of 41 of the 54 party-list...

Poll watchdogs question Comelec’s decision on party-list groups

By Sheila Crisostomo | December 1, 2012 - 12:00am

Poll watchdogs Consortium on Electoral Reforms (CER) and Kontra Daya yesterday questioned how the Commission on Elections (Comelec) decided on the fates of the party-list organizations seeking to run in the 2013...

Headlines

Out of control

By SKETCHES | By Ana Marie Pamintuan | October 12, 2012 - 12:00am

It’s dagdag-bawas, circa 2012: the Commission on Elections (Comelec) disqualifies four party-list organizations (as it should have done a long time ago) for not representing any marginalized sector.

Opinion

Spirit of the law

By A LAW EACH DAY (KEEPS TROUBLE AWAY) | By Jose C. Sison | October 1, 2012 - 12:00am

The spirit and purpose rather than the letter of the law should be given more importance in its implementation.

Opinion

EDITORIAL - One more reason to review partylist system

July 5, 2012 - 12:00am

Rep. Arnel Ty, one of the authors of House Bill 5312, which seeks a P400 million funding from government to jumpstart a new HIV/AIDS prevention and control program, is asking sexually active Filipino sailors to...

Freeman Opinion

EDITORIAL - Time to scrap the partylist system

June 12, 2012 - 12:00am

When will the government finally act to scrap the partylist system, which has become the single biggest electoral farce in the history of the Philippines?

Freeman Opinion

EDITORIAL - Abuse of a system

October 14, 2011 - 12:00am

The party-list system has become a travesty, with groups that are anything but marginalized fielding front organizations, and nominees who have never been part of the groups they are supposed to represent winning...

Opinion

Gatecrashers

By Jerry Tundag | July 23, 2010 - 12:00am

You and I know that Mikey Arroyo is as far removed from being an ordinary security guard or driver as a goat is from scuba diving, at least as far as his nomination as representative of the partylist group Ang Galing...

Freeman Opinion