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BANAT Vs Comelec - July 2009
BANAT Vs Comelec - July 2009
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RESOLUTION
CARPIO, J.:
The House of Representatives, represented by Speaker
Prospero C. Nograles, filed a motion for leave to intervene
in G.R. Nos. 179271 and 179295. The House of
Representatives filed a motion for clarification in
intervention and enumerated the issues for clarification as
follows:
A. There are only 219 legislative districts and not 220.
Accordingly, the alloted seats for party-list representation should
only
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Guimaras
Muntinlupa City
1998 209 52 261
NewDistricts:
Compostela
Valley
Taguig City (2nd
District)
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Navotas City
(assuming no addi-
tional districts are
created)
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Garnered Garnered
anteed tional plus ing
over Total
Seat Seats the
Votes (C),
three
for (First (Second in
seat
Party List, Round) Round)
whole cap
n% (B) (C) inte-
(E)
(A) gers
(D)
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5 The product of the percentage and the remaining available seats of all
parties ranked eight and below is less than one.
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18 AN WARAY 321,516 2.04% 1 1 2 N.A.
19 UNI-MAD 251,804 1.60% 0 1 1 N.A.
20 ABS 235,152 1.50% 0 1 1 N.A.
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21 ALIF 229,267 1.46% 0 1 1 N.A.
22 KAKUSA 229,036 1.46% 0 1 1 N.A.
23 KABATAAN 228,700 1.45% 0 1 1 N.A.
24 ABA-AKO 219,363 1.40% 0 1 1 N.A.
25 SENIOR 213,095 1.36% 0 1 1 N.A.
CITIZENS
26 AT 200,030 1.27% 0 1 1 N.A.
27 VFP 196,358 1.25% 0 1 1 N.A.
28 ANAD 188,573 1.20% 0 1 1 N.A.
29 BANAT 177,068 1.13% 0 1 1 N.A.
30 ANG 170,594 1.08% 0 1 1 N.A.
KASANGGA
31 BANTAY 169,869 1.08% 0 1 1 N.A.
32 ABAKADA 166,897 1.06% 0 1 1 N.A.
33 1-UTAK 165,012 1.05% 0 1 1 N.A.
34 TUCP 162,678 1.03% 0 1 1 N.A.
35 COCOFED 156,007 0.99% 0 0 0 N.A.
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7 Id.
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SEPARATE OPINION
NACHURA, J.:
This will clarify my position in these consolidated cases.
I concurred in the April 24, 2009 ponencia of the
Honorable Justice Antonio T. Carpio subject to my
submission that Section 11,1 Republic Act No. 79412 or the
Party-List System Act,
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1. to avoid a situation where the candidate will just use the
party-list system as a fallback position;
2. to discourage nuisance candidates or parties, who are not
ready and whose chances are very low, from participating in
the elections;
3. to avoid the reserve seat system from opening up the
system;
4. to encourage the marginalized sectors to organize, work
hard and earn their seats within the system;
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4 Id., at p. 290.
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