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The Akbayan Citizens' Action Party, better known as Akbayan (lit. ' the escorting of each other ' or ' the support for one another ' or ' the collective putting of an arm over the shoulders of another '), is a democratic socialist and progressive [4] political party in the Philippines.
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]
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.
In 2000, the Veterans Federation Party (VFP), the Akbayan! Citizens' Action Party and several other parties sued the COMELEC which led a case in the Supreme Court; the court ruling changed the way how the seats are allocated for the winning parties. In 1998, only 14 representatives were elected out of 13 winning parties, well short of the then ...
Llamas became active in the campaign for the approval of the party-list law. He is one of the founding member and first president of Akbayan Citizens' Action Party in 1998, [8] [9] and served as one of the party leaders. [9] In that year's national elections, Akbayan won one seat in the Philippine House of Representatives.
She is running for House representative as Mamamayang Liberal party-list nominee instead. [19] Chel Diokno , chairman of the Free Legal Assistance Group and senatorial candidate in 2019 and 2022 Diokno declined to run for senator. [20] He is running for House representative as Akbayan party-list nominee instead. [21]
Anakbayan subscribes to National Democracy, a Filipino nationalist ideology based on a Marxist–Leninist–Maoist perspective pledging to oppose foreign imperialism, landlordism, monopolistic capitalism, and corrupt government officials, with the Communist Party of the Philippines as the vanguard party to address these ills.
During his term as Akbayan party-list representative [2] at the Philippine House of Representatives, he introduced 63 bills and resolutions as principal author and co-authored another 128 bills and resolutions. Seven of the bills he principally authored, and nine bills he co-authored, were passed into law.