The Commission on Elections will proclaim the top 10 placers in the party-list race on Monday, although it cannot say yet how many seats in the House of Representative the winning groups would get.
The Commission on Elections will proclaim the top 10 placers in the party-list race on Monday, although it cannot say yet how many seats in the House of Representative the winning groups would get.
Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal said the poll body will not be able to determine the number of seats until the canvassing of the votes has been completed.
The Comelec has canvassed 96 percent of the votes.
But it will not be able to finish the canvass until after special elections for a number of towns in the Visayas and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao are held on June 3.
The allotted seats for party-list winners are computed based on the total number of votes cast for the party-list contest.
But those to be declared winners on Monday are assured of at least one seat each, Larrazabal said.
“No matter what happens, they get one seat,” he said.
The rest of the winners will be proclaimed “in the next few days,” he said.
Under the law, 20 percent of House seats are reserved for party-list groups, which supposedly represent the marginalized sectors. In the present 287-seat House, this comes to 57 seats.
Party-list groups that succeed in securing six percent of the total votes get three seats. Those which obtain four percent will have two seats, while those with two percent will have one representative.
According to the Comelec tally, Ako Bicol was in the lead with 1,522,986 votes, followed by Senior Citizens (1,292,182); Buhay (1,249,555); Akbayan (1,058,691); Gabriela (1,001,421); Coop-Natcco (943,529); 1-Care (768,829); Abono (766,615); Bayan Muna (746,019); An Waray (711,631);
Cibac (647,483); A Teacher (614,725); Agap (515,501); Butil (506,703); ABC (469,093); Anakpawis (445,628); Kabataan (417,923); LPGMA (417,600); Abante Mindanao (376,011); and ACT Teachers (369,564).
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