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Kabataan, also known as the Kabataan Partylist (KPL, lit. ' Youth Partylist ' ) and formerly known as Ang Nagkakaisang Kabataan Para sa Sambayanan ( ANAK ng BAYAN , lit. ' The United Youth for the People ' ), is a partylist in the Philippines affiliated with the leftist political coalition Makabayan .
In 2016, Elago became a party-list representative for Kabataan Partylist at age 25, representing the youth sector. [2] [6] As Kabataan representative, Elago was a member of the Makabayan Coalition with seven others: Carlos Isagani Zarate of Bayan Muna, Antonio Tinio and France Castro of ACT Teachers, Ariel Casilao of Anakpawis, and Emmi de Jesus and Arlene Brosas of Gabriela Women's Party.
Manuel was Kabataan's first nominee in the 2022 Philippine House of Representatives elections. The party-list received 536,690 votes or 1.46% of the votes, entitling the party a seat in congress. Throughout the campaign, the party was faced with disqualification cases, posing a risk to its proclamation.
The November 2016 barangay and SK elections were postponed to May 2018, and the following election was scheduled for May 2020, then every three years thereafter. [6]On September 30, 2019, the Senate of the Philippines passed a bill postponing the date of the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections to December 5, 2022. [7]
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Sarah Elago, Kabataan party-list representative (2016–present), former national president of the National Union of Students of the Philippines, activist [19] Danilo Fernandez , Laguna's 1st district representative (2007–2016, 2019–present), House Deputy Speaker (2019–2020), Mayor of Santa Rosa (2016–2019), Vice Governor of Laguna ...
The election was via the party-list system, with a 2% "soft" election threshold via the Hare quota, except that no party can win more than 3 seats, and if the seats won do not reach the 20% of the seats of the entire House of Representatives, the parties that have yet to win seats will get a seat each until the 20% reserved for party-lists have ...
Party-list representatives are indirectly elected via a party-list election wherein the voter votes for the party and not for the party's nominees (closed list); the votes are then arranged in descending order, with the parties that won at least 2% of the national vote given one seat, with additional seats determined by a formula dependent on ...