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Party-list groups entitled to 29 seats proclaimed
By MARK MERUEÑAS, GMANews.TV
MANILA, Philippines The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday proclaimed qualified party-list groups entitled to seats in the 14th Congress following the order of the Supreme Court to raise the number of said seats to 55. However, instead of 55, the Comelec said seats could only be raised to 51 so far. This is because of the disqualification cases being faced by two party-list groups and the dissolution of a legislative district in Mindanao. Bagong Alyansang Tagapagtaguyod ng Adhikain ng Sambayanan (BATAS) was supposed to have two seats, and Ang Laban ng Indiginong Filipino (ALIF) should have been entitled to one. Shariff Kabunsuan is no longer a province having its own legislative district, thus it took away another seat bringing down the available seats to 51. Currently, 22 seats are occupied by 17 groups in the 14th Congress, thus only 29 more seats are available to the winning groups. The 29 seats are distributed to the following groups that will have one seat each:
- Bayan Muna
- Apec
- A Teacher
- Akbayan
- Alagad
- Coop-Natco
- Butil
- ARC
- Amin
- Abono
- Yacap
- Agap
- An Waray
- Uni-mad
- ABS
- Kakusa
- Kabataan
- Aba-ako
- Senior Citizens
- AT
- VFP
- Anad
- Banat
- Ang Kasangga
- Bantay
- Abakada
- 1-Utak
- TUCP
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