Militant groups still lead party-list race – Pulse Asia

04/16/2007 | 05:04 PM

 

Ten of 93 party-list groups would likely win at least a Congressional seat in the May 14 elections, including three militant organizations expected to each get the maximum of three seats, Pulse Asia said in survey results it released Monday.

Pulse Asia, in a survey conducted April 3 to 5, noted that a slight majority of Filipinos (53 percent) is aware of the party-list system.

A party-list group gains one seat in the House of Represenative if it gets at least 2 percent of votes for such groups; two seats if at least 4 percent; and a maximum of three seats for 6 percent or more.

Leading the party-list race is Bayan Muna with an overall voter preference of 13.7 percent, more than twice what it needs to get three seats.

The militant paty-list group remains a popular choice even as its leaders were hounded by charges, including Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo who was arrested and later released over his alleged involvement in a bloody purge of communist rebels in the mid-1980s.

Also expected to bag three seats each are militant party-list groups Anakpawis (9.4 percent), a labor-based group whose leader Rep. Crispin Beltran is facing a 22-year-old sedition case and has been in hospital arrest at the Philippine Heart Center in Quezon City since last year, and the Gabriela Women’s Party (6 percent).

Bayan Muna has three incumbent lawmakers; Anakpawis, two; and Gabriela, one.

On the other hand, party-list groups expected to win two seats each are Akbayan! Citizens’ Action Party (5.3 percent) and Angat Ating Kabuhayan Pilipinas, Inc. (Anak) (4.2 percent).

Five groups are seen to win one seat each, including Buhay Hayaang Yumabong (Buhay) (3.4 percent), Advocacy for Teacher Empowerment Through Action, Cooperation, and Harmony Towards Educational Reforms, Inc. (A Teacher) (2.7 percent), Filipinos for Peace, Justice, and Progress Movement (FPJPM) (2.7 percent), Citizens’ Battle Against Corruption (Cibac) (2.4 percent), and Ahon Pinoy (2 percent).

Pulse Asia also noted that 35.7 percent of registered voters – whether or not they are aware of the party-list system – do not support any party-list group taking part in the elections.

The survey found that across the country’s geographic areas and socio-economic classes, the highest level of awareness is registered in the best-off Class ABC (6 percent) while sizeable majorities of those in the Visayas (60 percent) and in Metro Manila (62 percent) also report awareness of the party-list mechanism.

But 47 percent of Filipinos still do not know of the party-list system which was first implemented in 1998. Lack of awareness is most pronounced in the rest of Luzon (51 percent), in Mindanao (52 percent), and in the poorest Class E (54 percent).

The Pulse Asia survey covered interviews with 1,800 adults 18 years old and above, and has a +/- 2.3 percentage points error margin at the 95 percent confidence level.

Subnational estimates for the geographic areas covered in the survey have error margins of +/- 6 percent for each of Metro Manila, Northern Luzon and Southern Luzon; +/- 8 percent for each of Western Visayas, Central Visayas and Eastern Visayas; +/- 6 percent for Mindanao without the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and +/- 8 percent for ARMM. -GMANews.TV

Gabriela: Isyu ng OFWs, isyu rin ng kababaihan

04/16/2007 | 06:19 PM

Nanawagan ang isang grupo ng mga kababaihan sa mga Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) na suportahan ang mga partylist group na magtataguyod sa kapakanan ng mga migranteng manggagawa.

Ayon kay Cristina Palabay, secretary general ng Gabriela Women’s Party0list, kadikit ng usaping pangkababaihan ang isyu ng mga migranteng manggagawa.

Sa pahayag, ipinaliwanag niya na halos 70 porsiyento ng siyam na milyon migrante sa buong mundo ay mga babae—kaya naman itataguyod ng Gabriela ang mga panukalang batas na magsusulong sa kapakanan ng mga OFWs.

Ginawang halimbawa ni Palabay ang kaso ng pumanaw na domestic helper (DH) na si Flor Contemplacion na binitay dahil sa salang pagpaslang sa kanyang alaga at kapwa DH sa Singapore noong 1995.

“Gabriela echoes the call of migrants, especially women, against state exaction and criminal neglect. We recognize the crucial role of migrants in keeping the Philippine economy on its toes despite the grim fact that it is them and their families who suffer in return,” diin ni Palabay.

Inakusahan din niya na mapang-abuso ang ipinatutupad na patakaran ng Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) laban sa mga kababaihan na nais maging DH.

Ayon sa Center for Women’s Resources, hindi inuobliga ng pamahalaan ng 10 pangunahing bansa (Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Italy, Kuwait, United Kingdom, Qatar, Taiwan at Brunei) na pinupuntahan ng mga babaeng OFWs na pumirma sa UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families.

“Thus, the governments of these countries can deny accountability whenever there are cases of abuse or violence against women,” ayon kay Palabay. – Fidel Jimenez, GMANews.TV

Party List Candidates

Aangat Tayo
Abanse!Pinay
Abante Ilonggo, Inc. (ABA ILONGGO)
ABONO
Action for Democracy and Development for the Tribal People (ADD-TRIBAL) (0)
Advocates and Adherents of Social Justice for School Teachers and Allied Workers (AASJS)
Advocates for Special Children and the Handicapped Movement (ASAHAN MO)
Agbiag! Timpuyog Ilocano, Inc. (AGBIAG!)
Aging Pilipino Organization, Inc. (AGING PINOY)
Agricultural Sector Alliance of the Philippines, Inc. (AGAP)
Ahon Pinoy (AHON)
Ahonbayan (AHONBAYAN)
Akbay Pinoy OFW-National, Inc. (APOI)
Akbayan Citizen’s Action Party (AKBAYAN)
Aksyon Sambayanan (AkSa)
Alab Katipunan (AK)
Alagad
Alay sa Bayan ng Malayang Propesyonal at Repormang Kalakal (ABAY PARAK)
Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD)
Alliance of Associations of Accredited Workers in the Water Sector (AAWAS)
Alliance of Neo-Conservatives (ANC)
Alliance of People’s Organizations (APO)
Alliance of Volunteer Educators (AVE)
Alliance Transport Sector (ATS)
Alyansa ng May Kapansanang Pinoy (AKAPIN)
Alyansa Ng Sambayanan Para Sa Pagbabago (ASAP)
Alyansang Bayanihan Ng Magsasaka, Manggagawang Bukid at Mangingisda – Adhikain at Kilusan Ng Ordinar
An Waray
Anak Mahirap Learning Center, Inc. (ANAK MAHIRAP)
Anak Mindanao (AMIN)
Anakpawis
Ang Galing Pinoy (AG)
Ang Laban ng Indiginong Filipino (ALIF)
Angat Antas Kabuhayan Pilipino Movement (AANGAT KA PILIPINO)
Angat Ating Kabuhayan (ANAK)
Arts Business and Science Professionals (ABS)
Asosasyon ng mga Maliliit na Negosyanteng Gumaganap (AMANG), Inc.
Assalam Bangsamoro People’s Party (ASSALAM)
Association of Administrators, Professionals and Seniors (AAPS)
Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives (APEC)
Babae Para Sa Kaunlaran (BABAE KA)
Bago National Cultural Society of the Philippines (BAGO)
Bagong Tao Movement (BTM)
Bahandi Sa Kaumahan Ug Kadagatan (BAHANDI)
Bayan Muna
Bigkis Pinoy Movement (BIGKIS)
Biyaheng Pinoy
Buhay Hayaan Yumabong (BUHAY)
Citizens Battle Against Corruption (CIBAC)
COCOFED-Philippine Coconut Producers Federation, Inc.
Confederation of Grains Retailers Association of the Philippines (GRECON)
Cooperative-Natco Network Party (COOP-NATCCO)
Gabriela Women’s Party (GABRIELA)
Hanay ng Aping Pinoy (HAPI)
Kabataan Party List
Kabukluran ng mga Kababaihang Filipina sa Timog Katagalugan (BUKLOD FILIPINA), Inc.
Kapatiran ng mga Na Kulong na Walang Sala (KAKUSA), Inc.
Kasangga Sa Kaunlaran, Inc. (ANG KASANGGA)
Kasosyo Producer-Consumer Exchange Association, Inc. (KASOSYO)
Luzon Farmers Party (BUTIL)
Migrante Sectoral Party of Overseas Filipinos and Their Families (MIGRANTE)
Novelty Entrepreneurship and Livelihood for Food, Inc. (NELFFI)
Parents Enabling Parents (PEP)
Partido ng Manggagawa (PM)
People’s Movement Against Poverty (PMAP)
Philippine Confederation of Drivers Organization and Alliance of Concerned Transport Operators (PCDO
Philippine Guardians Brotherhood, Inc. (PGBI)
Samahan ng Mga Mangangalakal Para Sa Ikauunlad ng Lokal Na Ekonomiya (SMILE)
Sanlakas (SANLAKAS)
Seaman’s Party Inc. (SPI)
Suara Bangsamoro (SUARA)
Sulong! Barangay Movement
The True Marcos Loyalist (For God, Country and People) Association of the Philippines, Inc. (Marcos
United Movement Against Drugs (UNI-MAD)
Veterans Freedom Party (VFP)

Hello world! reason d’etre

It was been a quite for sometime that I deliberated to make another blog for information on the political situation of my parish. The pastoral challenge of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines in making the year 2006 as the social concern year continually re-echoes in my heart. Well, it was almost a year when the pastoral challenge was first published and sorry to that this is already a very slow reaction. Sometimes, sayone of the greatest temptation of not making a move is that a reasoning that it is somebody’swork and somebody might have already done it. Yes, if that was the case, I will surely not make this one. However, for deeper realization, it is also my work. Working toward the civilization of love foster in each in one of us to do something we believe. St. Augustine is right wwhen he said that ” when you love you can do everything.

 

Yesterday was the last day of filing of candicacy of local politician, Today, it is clear who will be running for the May 2007 election. And we have to know them, so that we could vote the deserving parties so that our nation will really have good leaders, the Lord is telling us to put the right leaders, so that they could lead us to prosperity and also lead us to become better citizens of this world as to care for the things he created, so that His creation wil not come into waste.

 

My forthcoming post will present the national and local candidates, the local candidates will comprise only of those running for governorship, board and congressman of second district of Laguna, mayor, vice-mayor and councilors of bay. I wish to include the whole Laguna, but I do not know, if I have an available time and information for such