Akbayan: Representing the over-represented, deceiving the marginalized

News Philippines Oct 26, 2012 at 3:13 pm

By ANTON DULCE

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MANILA — 2007: Akbayan, a partylist[1] group which claims to be ‘leftist’, calls for the disqualification of around 14 partylist groups,

Citing their organizational and financial links with the administration of then-president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Akbayan Rep. Walden Bello said “We must stop the rabid bastardization of the party-list system being committed by Mrs. Arroyo’s political pimps and paid hacks.”[2]

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