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HON. MICHAEL "MIKEE" L. ROMERO, Ph. D.
1-PACMAN Party-list
Assistant Majority Leader
Vice Chair, Youth & Sports Development and 2 other Committees 

PARTY-LISTS REMAIN RELEVANT IN A FEDERAL PHILIPPINES – REP. MIKEE ROMERO

As Representative of the 1-PACMAN Party-list and the Vice-President for 1st Termers of the Party-list Coalition Foundation, Inc., I have formally requested the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments to create a subcommittee for the specific purpose of crafting a section on party-list representation and roles in the Federal, State, Provincial and City/Municipal levels of government.

The Salient Features primer from Sub-Committee 1 of the Committee on Constitutional Amendments has only one paragraph about party-lists and it is specific on party-list representation in the Federal Assembly.

However, given the goal of establishing federalism all over the country, it is our humble and considered view that there should be party-list representation and participation in law-making and governance at the federal, state, provincial, city and municipal levels. We firmly believe this necessitates possibly a section or separate sections consisting of three to five paragraphs total in the draft federal charter.

We seek to develop a consensus position of the party-list representatives hopefully in a few weeks. I am already creating a technical working group under the auspices of my office to prepare the needed research, analyses, and working documents. (END)

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