Party-list concept needs revisiting

ZOOMING IN 09/02/2009 Representative government is not a perfect system of government, and one of its salient imperfections is the elected representatives’ inability to accord priority to the needs and concerns of all those who elected them. As a result, some constituents consider themselves marginalized and calls begin to be made for steps to correct this systemic shortcoming. The members of the commission created by then newly installed President Corazon Aquino to draft a new Constitution with the thought that they found the answer to the unattended-constituents problem in the party-list concept that had long been a part of the governmental systems of most western European countries. Under…

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Party-list concept needs revisiting