Text by MIKHA FLORES
Photos and video by VINCENT GO
PROGRESSIVE party-lists have urged the Commission on Elections to ask the Supreme Court to reconsider its latest party-list decision which effectively opens the system to major political parties and non-marginalized groups.
In a press statement, Makabayang Koalisyon ng Mamamayan (Makabayan) urged the Comelec to appeal the controversial ruling (Atong Paglaum Inc. vs. Commission on Elections) that reverses a 12-year old landmark decision on party-list accreditation.
The coalition said an appeal should be filed to “preserve the long established social justice doctrine that the party-list system is only for the marginalized and underrepresented”.
