The Commission on Elections declares Akbayan a winner in the 2022 elections. The poll body makes official Akbayan’s victory, allowing its first nominee LGBTQ+ rights advocate Perci Cendaña to have a seat in the House of Representatives.
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00:00The Commission on Elections declares Akbayan a winner in the 2022 elections.
00:06The poll body makes official Akbayan's victory, allowing its first nominee, LGBTQ rights advocate
00:12Percy Sandana, to have a seat in the House of Representatives.
00:16The proclamation comes after the Supreme Court upholds the commilex cancellation of the registration
00:20papers of Anwaray due to a violation of the party list law.
00:25Akbayan, which was one rank shy of winning a seat in the 2022 party list race, moves
00:30up a notch.
00:31Under the party list law, groups that fail to obtain 2% of the total votes cast in two
00:36consecutive elections may have its registration nullified.
00:40Akbayan is the home base of Senator Rizal Tiveros, the only member of the opposition
00:44to win a seat in the Senate in the 2022 elections.