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This Congress will last from July 22, 2019 until the next elections on 2022. The Congress of the Philippines is the bicameral legislature of the Republic of the Philippines consisting of two chambers: the lower chamber known as the House of Representatives and the upper chamber known as the Senate. The House of Representatives and the Senate ...
On February 5, the House of Representatives passed House Resolution 156, pledging loyalty to Speaker Romualdez; the resolution also stated that the Senate supposedly violated the principle of inter-parliamentary courtesy and interfered with the House's affairs when the Senate conducted hearings on PI.
In September, the Senate passed a bill postponing the election to 2025. [57] A few days later, the House of Representatives passed their own version of the bill. [57] As the two bills are different, they had to be reconciled before being sent to President Duterte for his signature. [58]
The House of Representatives continues to meet in the Batasang Pambansa Complex. The Senate currently meets in the GSIS Building, with a scheduled move to its new building in Taguig following the sine die adjournment in 2025. [1] The 19th Congress is also the first since the 10th Congress that no senator is from the Liberal Party.
The 2022 Philippine House of Representatives elections were the 36th lower house elections in the Philippines. The election of the House of Representatives was held on May 9, 2022. The election is held concurrently with the 2022 presidential , Senate and local elections.
The Philippines uses parallel voting for its lower house elections. For this election, there are 317 seats in the House of Representatives; 254 of these are district representatives, and 63 are party-list representatives. [7] Philippine law mandates that there should be one party-list representative for every four district representatives.
November 19 – The Supreme Court releases an August 20 ruling barring Rowena Guanzon from taking office as the first nominee of P3PWD party-list in the 2022 Philippine House of Representatives elections by nullifying her nomination, citing grave abuse of discretion by COMELEC in approving her substitution past the designated deadline. [326]
The 2022 Philippine House of Representatives elections in Metro Manila were held on May 9, 2022, to elect the thirty-three representatives to the House of Representatives of the Philippines representing various areas in the National Capital Region.