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‘Nakakalungkot’: Makabayan bloc nabawasan sa Kamara

Jeffrey Hernaez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 21 04:10 PM

Ang Gabriela Women’s Party, Kabataan party-list, at ACT-Teachers party-list na lamang ang natitira sa Makabayan bloc. Read more »

Duterte wants charter change to fix electoral system

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 04 07:28 PM

President Duterte pushed for changing the constitution, saying it was 'easy' for the country's elite to get into public office through party-lists. Read more »

Pilipinas Debates 2022: Dapat na bang buwagin ang party-list system?

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 03 09:59 PM

Sinagot nina Jose Montemayor Jr., Isko Moreno Domagoso, at Norberto Gonzales kung dapaat bang repormahin o buwagin ang party-list system sa bansa, sa ikalawang presidential debate ng Commission on Elections, ang “PiliPinas Debates 2022: The Turning Point.” Read more »

Duterte claims some party-lists acting as NPA’s ‘legal front’

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 30 01:13 PM

Duterte on Tuesday blasted the country's party-list system, saying it allows too many sectors to have a say in government, including communists. Read more »

Duterte criticizes misuse of party-lists by the rich

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 30 12:57 AM

An election watchdog said earlier this month that 120 out of 177 party-list groups were ‘identified with political clans and big businesses.’ Read more »

9 party-lists surpass 2 pct voter preference: Pulse

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 15 11:11 AM

Based on Pulse Asia's pre-election survey, 83 percent of their 2,400 adult respondents 'expressed support' for a party-list group. Read more »

Party-list system, to abolish or not? Experts weigh in

Mico Abarro, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 12 10:55 AM

The Party-List System Act needs to be reformed so that the truly marginalized sectors of society benefit from the system, a lawyer says. Read more »

'Nabalahura': Party-list system reforms sought

Mike Navallo and Wena Cos, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 11 02:29 AM

"Ang nangyari, nabalahura na ang partylist system ng Pilipinas." Read more »

Ka Leody seeks party-list system reform through people's initiative

Josiah Antonio, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 07 07:33 PM

Partido Lakas ng Masa presidential contender Leody De Guzman said he would seek to reform the party-list system through a people's initiative if it would not be fixed at the legislative level. Read more »

9 party-lists get 2 pct voter preference: Pulse Asia

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 14 02:18 PM

Nine party-list organizations got at least 2-percent voter preference if elections were held today, according to the latest Pulse Asia survey. Read more »

Party-list groups take to social media for Halalan 2022 campaign

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 09 08:54 PM

Party-list groups have taken to social media to launch their respective campaigns for the 2022 elections that began Tuesday. Read more »

39 partylist groups, posibleng tuluyang matanggal sa listahan ng Comelec

Johnson Manabat, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 08 04:09 PM

Ikinokonsidera na ng Commission on Elections (Comelec) ang pagtatanggal sa opisyal na listahan ng 39 na party-list organizations bago ang 2022 elections.  Read more »

Write from scratch: Lawyer calls for overhaul of party-list system

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 19 10:48 AM

The party-list system needs to be overhauled to ensure true representation of marginalized sectors in Congress, an election lawyer said Tuesday. Read more »

‘Most unconstitutional in 80-yr-history’: Election lawyers hit Comelec’s decision to proclaim Duterte Youth rep

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 25 04:40 PM

MANILA – A group of election lawyers who had opposed the proclamation of the representative of the Duterte Youth Party List has denounced the Commission on Election’s eventual decision to grant a certificate of proclamation to its nominee, Ducielle Cardema.   Read more »

'That's one evil': Duterte says party-list system exploited by the rich

Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 13 03:15 AM

MANILA - The party-list system was originally crafted to represent the marginalized sectors and President Rodrigo Duterte has had enough of people taking advantage over it. Read more »

Comelec approves Cardema's application as Duterte Youth House rep

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 04 07:46 PM

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday said it accepted the Duterte Youth Party-list’s petition to name former youth commissioner Ronald Cardema to its seat in the House of Representatives.  Read more »

Public pressure sought to flush political dynasties out of party-list system

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 01 12:40 PM

MANILA - Political dynasties kept tight control of the party-list system following the May elections, raising fears it would be even more difficult to overhaul an electoral system originally designed for the poor and the marginalized. Read more »

Lacson: Cardema, Duterte Youth are why party-list system now 'a joke'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 21 09:27 PM

Sen. Panfilo Lacson was the latest to slam former National Youth Commission chair Ronald Cardema for his bid to become the first nominee of Duterte Youth party-list.  Read more »