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The Philippines uses parallel voting for its lower house elections. For this election, there are 316 seats in the House of Representatives; 253 of these are district representatives, and 63 are party-list representatives.
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.
The 1987 Constitution of the Philippines created the party-list system. Originally, the party-list was open 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).
Agimat participated in the 2022 elections, vying to win at least a seat in the House of Representatives.It characterize itself as a multi-sector partylist since it aims to cater to the interests of various groups including the private and public sector, farmers, fisherfolks, professionals, small to medium scale industry workers, the elderly, the youth, and the persons with disabilities. [3]
4Ps Party-list took part in the 2022 Philippine elections, where it secured at least one seat in the House of Representatives. [2]The Partylist Watch and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) sought to nullify the 4Ps Party-list's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registration, alleging that the party-list named itself after the DSWD's Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino ...
The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP), a global human rights group, released its final report in June 2022. The report said the elections failed to meet the standards of "free, honest, and fair" voting, citing reports of human rights violations and fraud.
Manila Teachers won its first seat in the House of Representatives as a party-list group following the 2016 election. [2] The group's seat for the 17th Congress was filled by Virgilio Lacson. They were able to retain their seat for the 18th and 19th Congress, after securing sufficient votes in the 2019 and 2022 elections. Lacson likewise ...