SC shakes up party list

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NEW GUIDELINES. SC introduced new parameters in determining what groups could qualify for the partylist system.

The Supreme Court ruled on April 5 that the party-list system is not only for the marginalized sectors, debunking an argument that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) used in disqualifying 54 party-list groups for the May 13 elections. Voting 10-2-1, the SC said political parties do not have to represent the marginalized sector to participate in the party-list elections. The SC earlier defined the party-list system as one that caters to the marginalized. In the 2001 case Bagong Bayani v. Comelec, then Justice Artemio Panganiban wrote that “the law crafted to address the peculiar disadvantages of Payatas hovel dwellers cannot be appropriated by the mansion owners of Forbes Park.” The new ruling reverses Panganiban.


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