The politics of the Philippines

takes place in an organized

framework of a presidential,
representative, and democratic
republic whereby the president is
both the head of the state and the
head of government within a
pluriform multi-party system.
The politics of the Philippines takes place in an
organized framework of a presidential,
representative, and democratic republic
whereby the president is both the head of the
state and the head of government within a
pluriform multi-party system.
LEGISLATURE
• Congress is a bicameral legislature.
The upper house, the Senate, is
composed of 24 senators elected via
the plurality-at-large voting in the
country as one at-large “district.” The
senators elect amongst themselves a
Senate President.
LEGISLATURE
•The lower house is the House of
Representative , currently composed
of 292 representatives, with no more
than % elected via party-list system,
with the rest elected from legislative
districts. The house of Representatives
is headed by the Speaker.
EXECUTIVE
•It is vested to the president; in practice
however, the president delegates his
power to a cabinet. The president, who
is both head of the state and head of
government, is directly elected to a
single six-year term via first past to
post.
EXECUTIVE
•In case of death, resignation,
incapacitation, the Vice President acts
as the president until the expiration of
the term.
EXECUTIVE
•The president is also the commander
in chief of the Armed Forces of the
Philippines, thereby ensuring civilian
supremacy over the military. The
president is also given several military
powers, although once exercised,
congress is able to prolong or end it.
JUDICIARY
•The Court of Appeals is the second
highest appellate court, the Court of
Tax Appeals rules on tax matters, and
the Sandiganbayan (People’s
Advocate) is a special court for alleged
government irregularities.
JUDICIARY
•It is composed of Supreme Court and
other lower courts. The supreme court
is the court of last resort, and decides
on constitutionality of laws via judicial
review. The president selects justices
and judges from nominee given by the
judicial bar council.
JUDICIARY
•The Regional Trial Courts (RTC) are
the main courts. The Regional Trial
Courts are based on judicial regions,
which almost correspond to the
administrative regions.
•Elections are administered by the
Commission on elections (COMELEC). The
elected officials are the president, vice
president, members of the congress, regional
governors and assemblymen, provincial
governors, vice governors and board
members, city and municipal mayors, vice
mayors, and councilors, and barangay
(village) chairmen and councilors.
•Elections are for fixed terms. All
elected officials have three-year term,
except the president, vice president,
and senators, which are six years. All
terms begin and end on June 30 of the
election year.