Lawmakers on Monday pushed for tighter safeguards and clearer standards in the party-list system during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Electoral Reforms...
Senate Deputy Majority Leader Risa Hontiveros and the Akbayan representatives filed parallel legislative measures seeking major reforms to the party-list system to curb abuses...
SPEAKER Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez backed the Department of Education’s (DepEd) partnership with Security Bank Foundation Inc. (SBFI) and Security Bank Corporation (SBC) in...
"We must expose lawmakers whose votes and committee roles intersect with their sectors — be it education, media, infrastructure, or religion"
THE catbird seat on...
With the Commission on Elections (Comelec) setting the proclamation of party-list winners on Monday, an election lawyer simplifies the computation of seat allocation.
Section 5,...
“A total 34 party-list organizations participating in the May 2025 polls are set to receive notices from the Commission on Elections for violating rules...
Abolishing the country’s party-list system will require amending the 1987 Constitution, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner George Garcia said.
Garcia made the comment, after President...
"It is still our best chance at ensuring a more substantial and inclusive representation in our legislature."
With the national elections happening next year, the...
"It has become an anomaly."
Clearly, the biggest anomaly of the 1987 Constitution, otherwise known as the Cory Constitution, was the introduction of the so-called...
"Once again, voters will be asked to countenance what has become the greatest abomination in the 1987 Constitution."
The final stage of the drafting of...
