Akbayan Residents’ Motion Get together Rep.-elect Chel Diokno
MANILA, Philippines — The Akbayan Residents’ Motion Get together, which didn’t land among the many front-runners in pre-election surveys, is main the social gathering record race within the Could 12 midterm elections and is poised to get the utmost three seats within the Home of Representatives.
Akbayan will get a recent three-year time period for its high three nominees led by human rights lawyer Chel Diokno.
Primarily based on partial and unofficial outcomes as of 12:58 p.m. on Tuesday, with 97.2 p.c of election returns transmitted, Akbayan had 2,749,857 votes, or 6.71 p.c of the votes solid for social gathering record teams.
Akbayan ranked 57th within the 2022 elections, when it bought solely 236,226, or 0.64 p.c of the votes.
READ: Akbayan expresses gratitude to supporters for over 2M votes
In September, Akbayan crammed within the final seat for the 2022 social gathering record race after the Supreme Court docket affirmed an earlier Comelec resolution to cancel An Waray’s social gathering record registration.
Greater opposition
In an announcement on Tuesday, Diokno thanked the outpouring help for Akbayan.
Within the incoming Congress, he stated, opposition lawmakers can have “a louder voice … and we’ll use it to ahead the causes of the marginalized, and to combat for our sovereignty and democracy.”
Akbayan is a pioneer social gathering record group in Congress, first profitable in 1998 and in all succeeding elections besides in 2019.
The final time Akbayan was capable of safe the utmost three seats was within the 2004 elections, with Etta Rosales, Mario Aguja and Risa Hontiveros serving within the Home.
The group later allied itself with then President Benigno Aquino III and the Liberal Get together.
Akbayan is the political base of Hontiveros, the one member of the opposition to win a Senate seat within the 2022 elections.
Assured of seats
Akbayan and 5 different incumbent social gathering lists are already assured of not less than one seat every out of the 63 social gathering record seats up for grabs.
The others are Duterte Youth (with 2,298,760 votes, or 5.61 p.c); Tingog (1,787,233 votes, or 4.36 p.c); 4PS (1,434,178 votes, or 3.5 p.c); ACT-CIS (1,221,669 votes, or 2.98 p.c), and Ako Bicol, (1,061,175 votes, or 2.59 p.c).
Duterte Youth, ACT-CIS and 4PS have been projected by survey agency Pulse Asia to be among the many the highest performing among the many 155 social gathering lists within the 2025 elections.
Primarily based on the preliminary outcomes, solely Akbayan, Duterte Youth, Tingog and 4PS are poised to get three seats. ACT-CIS is predicted to get solely two.
Within the 2022 elections, ACT-CIS, with broadcast journalist Erwin Tulfo as its first nominee, dominated the social gathering record race with getting 2.1 million votes, or 5.7 p.c of the votes solid. It was the one social gathering record that received three seats.
New social gathering lists are additionally poised to get represented within the subsequent Congress.
These embrace Strong North, which is at present at eighth spot (1.84 p.c of the votes), with Abra Rep. Ching Bernos as its first nominee); Trabaho at ninth (1.58 p.c), with Supreme Court docket lawyer Johanne Monich Bautista as its first nominee); PPP at eleventh (1.39 p.c), whose first nominee Harold James Duterte is a nephew of former President Rodrigo Duterte; Mamamayang Liberal at 14th (1.32 p.c), has former Sen. Leila de Lima as its first nominee, and FPJ Panday Bayanihan at fifteenth (1.29 p.c), with Brian Llamanzares, solely son of Sen. Grace Poe, as its first nominee.
Round 50 social gathering lists are anticipated to take Home seats within the twentieth Congress, which opens in July.
Purple-tagging sufferer
This 12 months’s outcomes weren’t pretty much as good for the Makabayan bloc as solely two of its affiliated social gathering record—ACT Academics (thirty fourth, or 0.85 p.c) and Kabataan (fortieth, or 0.75 p.c)—are anticipated to get seats.
Gabriela could lose its present seat because it solely ranked fifty fifth, with 253,868 votes, or 0.62 p.c of the votes solid.
Bayan Muna, which was among the many hottest social gathering lists earlier than the Duterte administration, is at a distant 76th, garnering solely 160,369 votes, or 0.39 p.c.
It’s in peril of being delisted by the Comelec and couldn’t take part within the 2028 basic elections for failure to safe a seat previously two elections—in 2022 and 2025.
In an announcement on Tuesday, Bayan Muna blamed its low numbers on the assaults and harassments from the Nationwide Activity Drive to Finish Native Communist Armed Battle and the navy.
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“The vilification, Purple-tagging, harassment, pretend information, and disinformation campaigns focused towards us solely uncovered the desperation of these in energy to silence the voice of dissent and suppress the need of the marginalized,” it stated.—with a repoirt from Inquirer Analysis
