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Akbayan is only one of two parties (the other is Butil) to win seats in all party-list elections in the Philippines until 2019. Furthermore, Akbayan is the only party to surpass the 2% election threshold in all elections until the 2016 election where they fell short by 0.12%.
Cendaña ran as the first nominee of the Akbayan Party-list in the 2022 elections. Although Akbayan initially fell short of securing a seat in the House of Representatives, the party was later proclaimed a winner after the disqualification of the An Waray party-list by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) on August 14, 2023. [3]
These are: (a) major parties, [1] [2] which typically correspond to traditional political parties; (b) minor parties or party-list organizations, which rely on the party-list system to win Congressional seats; and (c) regional or provincial parties, which correspond to region-wide or province-wide organizations, respectively.
While the House is predominantly elected by a plurality voting system, known as a first-past-the-post system, party-list representatives are elected by a type of party-list proportional representation. The 1987 Constitution of the Philippines created the party-list system. Originally, the party-list was open to underrepresented community ...
People Working for the Development of the Philippines Franz Vincent Legazpi; Ralph Julius Santos; Tirso Escobar; Kaydee Marie Velasco; Anne Clarice Ng; Jose Fernando Escalante; Alvin Ace Melano; Prudencio Denis Batoy Jr. Arianne Tampoy; J. Paolo Angelo Saycon; 123 API Party [125] Abante Pangasinan Ilokano Party Amado Espino Jr. Nelson Gayo ...
The election was via the party-list system, with a 2% "soft" election threshold via the Hare quota, except that no party can win more than 3 seats, and if the seats won do not reach the 20% of the seats of the entire House of Representatives, the parties that have yet to win seats will get a seat each until the 20% reserved for party-lists have ...
Loretta Ann Pargas Rosales [2] (born August 17, 1939) is a Filipina activist, teacher and politician who has served three terms as the party-list representative of the Akbayan Citizens' Action Party to the Philippines' House of Representatives from the 11th-13th Congress (1998-2007). She was the Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights of ...
Akbayan! Youth (A!Y) is the youth wing of the Akbayan Citizens' Action Party, a democratic socialist and progressive political party in the Philippines. [1]As a collective of youth activists and different youth organizations, A!Y has been in existence since 1998 alongside its mother party.