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Party-list nominee among fatalities in Negros clashes

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines —A nominee of the Kabataan party-list group and a student activist were among 19 people killed in a ...
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Party-list: System meant for the poor, used by the powerful

MANILA, Philippines — Since its introduction in the 1987 Constitution, the party-list system was envisioned as a corrective to politics dominated by the elite — a mechanism that would allow ...