Commission on Elections chairperson George Garcia on Monday suggested that a Senate panel put additional qualifications to ensure that party-list nominees are true members of marginalized sectors.
“Ang puwede po nating gawin sa bill maglalagay tayo ng qualification of being nominees. Dadagdagan po natin ang qualification. Hindi naman po siya violation [of the 1987 Constitution] because that’s not [pertaining to the] qualification of members of the House of Representatives but qualifications of nominees of that particular sector or party,” Garcia said during a Senate hearing.
The bills filed by Senate panel chairperson Imee Marcos and Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa seek to ensure that the nominees of the party-list organizations are members of the sector that they want to represent. Garcia, a former election lawyer, explained that the interpretation of the Supreme Court on the case of Paglaum versus Comelec, which stated that Republic Act 7941 or the Party-List System Act does not require national and regional parties to represent marginalized sectors, was rendered due to the absence of the law.
“Halimbawa, kung ilan po ang allocated sa farmers, sa fisherfolk, sa women, sa youth, pagkatapos po kung 10 sila, sila po ang maglalaban-laban sa 10 slots na ‘yon so that at any given time, there will be a representation of each and every sector as mandated by the Constitution,” he added.
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