Back to square one for party-list system
By MIKHA FLORES THE latest Supreme Court ruling on the party-list system has stirred up a maelstrom of controversy and revived debates over its real aim barely a month before the May 13 mid-term elections.
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SC reverses old ruling in latest party-list decision
By MIKHA FLORES FOR the past 12 years, the Commission on Elections was guided by a Supreme Court decision describing the party-list system as a “social justice tool”. The system was designed not just to give more laws for the protection of marginalized groups but to enable them to become lawmakers themselves. But with the
