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                    [Title] => EDITORIAL - Drug addicts as "honorable" congressmen
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Drug addicts are marginalized in society largely by their own choice.

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Alexander Raquepo, Ilocos Sur: The cooperative sector has been a silent but major contributor to our economic growth especially in the countryside. It needs representation in Congress via party list.

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For years, we have been clamoring for the automation of our electoral process.

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Someone should put the brakes on the race for party-list representation before the system defeats its intended purpose and turns into a farce.

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MANILA, Philippines - On the editorial portion of the May 5, 2009 issue of The Philippine STAR entitled “Governor Jocjoc”, the second sentence of the first paragraph, which refers to the 2007 midterm election of the editorial states that “Garcillano was rejected by the voters of the first district of Bukidnon, who instead picked the Liberal Party’s Malu Acosta as their congressional representative.

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Rudy Tagimacruz, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon: Some say that the original House lawmakers can already serve us well without party list representatives.

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There are now an additional 55 new Congressmen and women coming from the ranks of the Party-list groups, in a new formula coming from the Supreme Court alloting these new Party-list seats.

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The country is being consumed by its own political greed. When the Supreme Court ruled to elevate 32 more party-list representatives to the House of Representatives, it in effect caused the Constitutionally-mandated membership cap of 250 to be breached.

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The appropriation for poll automation has cleared both chambers of Congress despite some last-minute attempts at filibustering by Senator Francis Escudero.

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I had avoided voting for any party-list group in the previous elections as a matter of conviction. I had always felt that the design for party-list representation — among other flaws in the 1987 Constitution — was hare-brained.
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Drug addicts are marginalized in society largely by their own choice.

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Alexander Raquepo, Ilocos Sur: The cooperative sector has been a silent but major contributor to our economic growth especially in the countryside. It needs representation in Congress via party list.

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Inbox World [SectionUrl] => inbox-world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 508340 [Title] => Anxiety [Summary] =>

For years, we have been clamoring for the automation of our electoral process.

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Someone should put the brakes on the race for party-list representation before the system defeats its intended purpose and turns into a farce.

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MANILA, Philippines - On the editorial portion of the May 5, 2009 issue of The Philippine STAR entitled “Governor Jocjoc”, the second sentence of the first paragraph, which refers to the 2007 midterm election of the editorial states that “Garcillano was rejected by the voters of the first district of Bukidnon, who instead picked the Liberal Party’s Malu Acosta as their congressional representative.

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Rudy Tagimacruz, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon: Some say that the original House lawmakers can already serve us well without party list representatives.

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There are now an additional 55 new Congressmen and women coming from the ranks of the Party-list groups, in a new formula coming from the Supreme Court alloting these new Party-list seats.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 460046 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Time to scrap sectoral representation [Summary] =>

The country is being consumed by its own political greed. When the Supreme Court ruled to elevate 32 more party-list representatives to the House of Representatives, it in effect caused the Constitutionally-mandated membership cap of 250 to be breached.

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The appropriation for poll automation has cleared both chambers of Congress despite some last-minute attempts at filibustering by Senator Francis Escudero.

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I had avoided voting for any party-list group in the previous elections as a matter of conviction. I had always felt that the design for party-list representation — among other flaws in the 1987 Constitution — was hare-brained.
[DatePublished] => 2007-05-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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