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Loreta Ann Rosales of Akbayan will be sitting in the House for a second term, along with neophyte legislator Benjamin Cruz, a geodetic and civil engineer, representing the Luzon Farmers Party, also called Butil.


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Pro-life group backs candidacy of Villar

March 10, 2010 - 12:00am

A group that has been leading in the fight against the controversial Reproductive Health Bill has announced that it is supporting the candidacy of Nacionalista Party standard-bearer Senator Manny Villar.

Cebu News

Ban on group advocating short-term marriage sought

January 18, 2010 - 12:00am

The party-list group ABA (Alyansang Bayanihan ng mga Magsasaka, Manggagawang-Bukid at Mangingisda) has asked the Commission on Elections to ban from participation in the May 2010 party-list elections an organization...

Headlines

Most Pinoys unaware of party-list system — poll

March 13, 2004 - 12:00am

Bad news for party-list organizations. Six years since the party-list system was adopted, over half of Filipino voters still have not heard of it, according to a nationwide independent opinion poll. Fifty-four...

Headlines

Heart of a Farmer

By Antonio Q. Montemayor | October 19, 2003 - 12:00am

A few months after I decided to try to complete my late father’s life-story, I found myself lying in bed one night, wondering if he and the other young Catholic lay leaders who had gathered in a farmer leader’s...

Starweek Magazine

Velarde son joins Congress

July 10, 2003 - 12:00am

The son of influential El Shaddai leader Mike Velarde is now a congressman. Rene Velarde will be among the seven new party-list representatives who will be proclaimed by the Commission on Election (Comelec) today,...

Headlines

EDITORIAL – New lawmakers

June 27, 2003 - 12:00am

Less than a year to the next elections, the Supreme Court has allowed seven more groups to be represented in Congress. Voting 12-1 with one abstention, the high tribunal rules that the Buhay Hayaang Yumabong, A...

Opinion

SC names 7 more party-list solons

By Aurea Calica | June 26, 2003 - 12:00am

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that seven more party-list organizations could take seats in the House of Representatives for garnering the required number of votes in the May 14, 2001 elections.

Headlines

5 party-list congressmen proclaimed

By Sandy Araneta | November 27, 2002 - 12:00am

Five party-list candidates for the House of Representatives were proclaimed as winners yesterday, a year and a half after the last congressional elections. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) proclaimed as the...

Headlines

Akbayan, Butil bets to be proclaimed

By Delon Porcalla | August 26, 2001 - 12:00am

Two more party list representatives will take their seats in Congress to join early entrants Satur Ocampo, Crispin Beltran and Liza Maza of Bayan Muna following a Supreme Court (SC) ruling ordering the Commission...

Headlines