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MANILA (SDN) — Are you a registered voter, of course, a Filipino, and intends to put in your ballot your favorite party-list?
Then check out the Certified List of Party-List Groups with Nominees in the listing that follows.
Click and read: Comelec May 2025 party-list
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) headed by Chair George Erwin Garcia has released the complete list so electors may know, as the party-lists are now listed with their final number on Election Day, May 12, 2025.
Republic Act 9369 has stipulated that the National and Local Elections (NLE) next year “will again be fully automated, as it was with the May 2010 NLE, 2013 NLE, 2016 NLE, 2019 NLE, and with the May 2022 NLE.”
Covered in the automation are:
- the counting of votes in the precincts;
- the consolidation of the precinct results;
- the transmission of precinct results to the corresponding city/municipality canvassing board;
- the canvassing of precinct results in the district, city, municipal levels;
- the proclamation of winning candidates in the district, city, municipal levels;
- the transmission of the district, city,
- municipal canvassing results to the provincial canvassing board, and of the highly urbanized city results to the national canvassing board;
- the canvassing of city/municipal results in the provincial level;
- the proclamation of winning candidates in the provincial level;
- the transmission of the highly urbanized city and provincial results to the national canvassing board; and
- the canvassing of provincial and highly urbanized city results, including overseas results, in the national level
No. 1 in Comelec’s Certified List is 4Ps (Pagtibayin at Palaguin ang Pangkabuhayang Pilipino). It has 10 nominees like all the rest of party-list groups. Its number one nominee is lawyer Marcelino C. Libanan.
Last but not the list, which is No. 156th, is Uswag Ilonggo (Uswag Ilonggo Party).
There’s United Senior Citizens (United Senior Citizens Koalisyon ng Pilipinas, Inc.) at No. 17th. Milagros A. Magsaysay is the top nominee.
Meanwhile, Pinoy Ako (Pinoy Ako), which advocates equality of rights, education, health, economic, employment, among others, for the more than 10 million-strong Indigenous People (IP) and the “obreros” (construction workers) is No. 99th in the Comelec’s Certified List of Party-List Groups.
Pinoy Ako platform: https://scitechanddigital.news/2024/10/28/pinoy-ako-party-list-to-work-for-creation-of-indigenous-peoples-bank-with-php5-b-seed-fund/
In a press conference at Wack Wack Golf and Country Club in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, lawyer Gil Astudillo Valera, one of the 10 nominees of Pinoy Ako, told journalists and bloggers that their group, if given the chance to serve in Congress, plans to file bills for the establishment of an Indingenous People’s Bank and Indigenous People’s University.
Valera said the IPs are being exploited by politicians and businessmen because of their low education, with many of them only having a high school education.
He said Pinoy Ako will also bat for the amendment of the IPRA Law to give it more teeth, as well as work for a 15 percent share of tribal communities from the proceeds of their lands being used for mining its minerals.
No. 75th is Kusug Tausug (Kusug Tausug), with its 10 nominees led by Aiman Tan Tan.
Then, there’s an advocate of cheap electricity, Murang Kuryente Partylist (Murang Kuryente) with lawyer Arthur Yap as its top nominee.
No. 29th is Batang Quiapo (Sulong mga Batang Quiapo). Its top nominee is Media Zofia S. Canlas.
At No. 33rd is Pamilyang Magsasaka (Pamilyang Magsasaka) with number nominee Randy R. Cirio.
There’s SSS-GSIS Pensyonado (SSS-GSIS Pensyonado) at No. 45th and top nominee Rolando Ledesma Macasaet.
No. 66th is Bayaning Tsuper (BTS Bayaning Tusper), Aminola P. Abaton is top nominee.
In No. 90th is 4K (Kababaihan Kabalikat para sa Kapakanan at Kaunlaran with number nominee Iris Marie Demesa Montes.
Kasambahay (Kasambahay Tayo, Inc.) is on No. 114th. Top nominee is lawyer Chembeelyn A. Balucan.
And there are many more in the list that voters may want to put in Congress.
Lawyer Maria Norina S. Tangaro-Casingal, Director IV, Law Department at Comelec, signed the Certified List of the Party-List up for next year’s political exercise.
According to Wikipedia, the 1987 Constitution established the party-list system in the House of Representatives in which “20% of the House of Representatives is elected”.
Congressmen are elected by a plurality voting system while the party-list representatives are voted by a type of proportional representation.
The party-list was originally opened to under. Originally, the party-list system was “opened to underrepresented community sectors or groups, including labor, peasant, urban poor, indigenous cultural, women, youth, and other such sectors as may be defined by law (except the religious sector).”
Then a Supreme Court decision in 2013 “clarified that the party-list is a system of proportional representation open to various kinds of groups and parties, and not an exercise exclusive to marginalized sectors.(♤)