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Victoria Tulad

ABS-CBN News

<p style="text-align:left">MANILA — Senate Deputy Majority Leader Risa Hontiveros has filed a bill seeking to prohibit political dynasties and representatives who have interests in government contracts from participating in the party-list system.</p><p>“Kung gusto nilang rumaket, huwag nilang gamitin ang party-list system,” Hontiveros said in a statement on Monday.</p><p>“This bill aims to reclaim the voice of ordinary Filipinos who&#x27;ve been shut out of power because of abusive personalities who are using the partylist system as a backdoor to power. Tama na ang pangha-hijack nila. If they’re not genuinely fighting for the Filipino people, they don&#x27;t belong in this system,” she added.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/12/15/4-decades-in-congress-can-the-anti-political-dynasty-bill-this-time-be-different-1955">4 decades in Congress: Can the anti-political dynasty bill this time be different?</a></div><p>Hontiveros&#x27; Senate Bill 1656, which seeks to amend the Party-List System Act, also eyed to:</p><ul style="list-style-type:circle"><li>Remove the three-seat limit to enable full democratic and proportional representation</li><li>Introduce a clearer and fairer formula in determining the allocation of seats by defining a minimum threshold based on the number of available seats for party-list representatives</li><li>Prohibit the registration of party-list groups that are patterned after government assistance programs, names of public officials, celebrities, and other public figures, and television or radio programs.</li></ul><div><br/></div><p>“Someone who votes on infrastructure budgets while their company bids on those same projects is a scammer. This blatant conflict of interest has no place in a democracy. After decades of abuse and loopholes, the sweeping reforms proposed in these bills hope to hand the reins back to everyday Filipinos,” Hontiveros said.</p><p>A counterpart measure, House Bill 7074, has been filed by the Akbayan party-list in the House of Representatives.</p><p>Hontiveros said they hoped for a “truly representative Congress” that fights for the marginalized. </p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/1/2/anti-political-dynasty-bills-top-house-electoral-reforms-committee-agenda-adiong-1848">Anti-political dynasty bills top House electoral reforms committee agenda — Adiong</a></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><div style="text-align:center"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VlbEVaHt4y0?si=Q16pCb2EpBbSLNZL" title="YouTube video player" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>

<p>Senate Deputy Majority Leader Risa Hontiveros wants to prohibit political dynasties and contractors from participating in the party-list system. </p>

Senate Deputy Majority Leader Risa Hontiveros wants to prohibit political dynasties and contractors from participating in the party-list system.

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Hontiveros files bill to ban political dynasties, contractors in party-list system

Victoria Tulad,

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Published Jan 12, 2026 04:01 PM PHT

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