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Rep. Mikee Romero (1-Pacman Party-list), with a net worth of ₱6.50 billion, is the wealthiest member of Congress and of the House of Representatives as of September 18, 2020. Sen. Cynthia Villar ( Nacionalista ), with a net worth of ₱ 3.8 billion , is the wealthiest member of the Senate as of December 31, 2019.
In the general election, he is running for House representative from Malabon. [61] Edward Hagedorn (PDP–Laban, Palawan–3rd) Hagedorn died on October 3, 2023. [62] In the general election, his son Clink is running to succeed him. [63] Ralph Recto (Nacionalista, Batangas–6th) Recto was appointed Secretary of Finance on January 12, 2024. [64]
The Philippines uses parallel voting for its lower house elections. For this election, there are 317 seats in the House of Representatives; 254 of these are district representatives, and 63 are party-list representatives. [7] Philippine law mandates that there should be one party-list representative for every four district representatives.
In the 18th Congress of the Philippines, the parties supporting President Rodrigo Duterte disputed the speakership, Alan Peter Cayetano of the Nacionalista Party, Lord Allan Jay Velasco of PDP–Laban, and the National Unity Party's (NUP) Paolo Duterte emerged as the front-runners to be speaker. The president pushed for a term-sharing agreement ...
In the Philippines, members of the House of Representatives cannot serve more than four consecutive terms. Term limited members are prohibited from running in the 2022 elections; they may run for any other positions, or may wait until the 2025 elections, or in a special election.
Candidate Party Votes % Salvador Pleyto: PDP–Laban: 81,307: 37.68: Fred Germar: National Unity Party: 76,430: 35.42: Kaye Martinez Daly: Liberal Party: 51,491: 23.86
The five political parties with the highest number of members at the start of the 10th Congress of the Philippines were banned from participating. Each voter can vote one party via closed list ; votes are then tallied nationwide as one at-large district, with the number of sectoral representatives not to surpass 20% of the total number of ...
The 2019 Philippine House of Representatives elections were the 35th lower house elections in the Philippines. They were held on May 13, 2019, to elect members to the House of Representatives . Candidates were expected to be either for or against President Rodrigo Duterte .