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Agatha Gregorio

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<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17673505357681767350533459.jpeg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/>Security personnel inspect the House of Representatives session hall in this file photo. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News/File</div>MANILA — Bills against political dynasties will be at the top of the agenda of the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms when it meets on January 27, Lanao del Sur Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong — panel chair and a House deputy majority leader.This is amid clamor inside and outside the lower chamber for the matter to be discussed. The 1986 Constitution prohibits political dynasties but dynast-dominated Congress has yet to pass an enabling law for the ban.“[T]he fact that we have received several– 17, kung ‘di ako nagkakamali na ngayon, 17 versions of the same subject matter, it only means na ang House of Representatives, the members are willing to see and willing to participate in wanting to see the end of all this talk on anti-political dynasty,” Adiong said on Friday.Among the versions of the anti-political dynasty bill is <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/12/11/speaker-dy-sandro-marcos-file-anti-political-dynasty-bill-1515">House Bill 6771 filed by House Speaker Faustino “Bojie” Dy III and House Majority Leader Sandro Marcos.</a>Expecting a “lengthy debate,” Adiong believes half of the country will not be satisfied with the committee report on the proposed measure.<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>“Well it&#x27;s going to be tough, I admit. Honestly, I&#x27;m expecting a lot of questions... Kung anuman ‘yung magiging resulta ng usapin sa anti-political dynasty, I&#x27;m sure hindi lahat masaya,” Adiong said.He added crafting the legislation between sectors, including those who say that a ban would be &quot;unconstitutional.&quot;He said: “There&#x27;s one sector saying, ‘That&#x27;s very constitutional because that&#x27;s what the Constitution dictates.’ So there&#x27;s really a clash of school of thought when it comes to anti-political dynasty.” Adiong also proposes that House leadership “go down to the grassroots” for a public consultation that would show what the people think about proposals.“Definitely you will be expecting deans of colleges, law schools, constitutional experts, former justices of the Supreme Court. You would also be expecting those who are still around na mga one or two framers of the Constitution,&quot; he also said.

Bills against political dynasties will be the top item on the agenda of the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms on January 27, a day after the resumption of session at the House of Representatives, according to the House panel’s chairperson Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong.

Bills against political dynasties will be the top item on the agenda of the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms on January 27, a day after the resumption of session at the House of Representatives, according to the House panel’s chairperson Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong.

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Anti-political dynasty bills top House electoral reforms committee agenda — Adiong

Agatha Gregorio,

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Published January 02, 2026 06:48 PM PHT

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