Wanted: Legit party-list

under-represented. In fact, there are some groups that tend to make their constituents “over-represented” in Congress ( e. g. geographical “regional” party lists). A number of organizations have millionaire businessmen as nominees, yet purportedly representing citizens on the lower strata of the society that the system has been put to shame. The current party list system is not the intention and will of the law when it was created. Abolish the party list! We don’t need a security guard party list, tricycle driver and operators, Bisaya pa more, Waray kuno and the like. It defeats the purpose of having a congressman from Bicol to have another party-list pretending to represent Bicolanos. No wonder by next election you’ll see a whole lot of Todas, taxi operators, barkers’ association, massager group, sex workers, sidewalk vendor, pedicab drivers apply for accreditation. Wake up, people, these groups are there for the power and money and not to represent a certain group or cause.”

From ERNIE: “And this travesty has prospered like mushrooms with the active collusion of Comelec which controls the backdoor entry somehow. Comelec has in effect become the party-list membership factory. It is limited not only by the 2 percent law but “equally” the impracticality of having an unlimited number of party-list candidates each election for the Smartmatic automated system would go crazy with either 2-meter long or 6 or so pages