The ACT-CIS Partylist (pronounced "act CIS"), officially the Anti-Crime and Terrorism Community Involvement and Support Inc., is a political organization which has

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representation in the

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. From 2013 to 2016, ACT-CIS was represented by former police officer

Samuel Pagdilao Samuel Duldulao Pagdilao, Jr. (born February 13, 1957), is a retired Filipino police officer and politician who served in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2016. Pagdilao used to work as a director in the Philippine National Police (P ...

. ACT-CIS returned to the House of Representatives in 2019, when it started to become associated with media personality brothers Erwin and

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History

At the 2013 elections, ACT-CIS received an endorsement from the

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. The organization's seat was filled in by former police officer

who had a platform against crime. For the 2016 election, Samuel Pagdilao forewent from being included in the nominee list for ACT-CIS to run for Senator. The ACT-CIS nominee list is led by first-nominee samuel's wife Maria Rosella Pagdilao. ACT-CIS failed to secure any seat. In 2019 election, ACT-CIS topped the party-list race. ACT-CIS got the most number of votes in the party-list race with 2,651,987 votes. Sometime before the election,

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a friend of media personality

Erwin Tulfo Erwin Teshiba Tulfo (; born October 6, 1963) is a Filipino politician, news anchor and columnist who is a Senate of the Philippines, senator-elect of the Philippines. He has served as the representative for ACT-CIS Partylist and as a deputy maj ...

acquired ACT-CIS from Pagdilao. Since then the party became associated with Erwin, and his brother

. ACT-CIS became the most voted party-list again in 2022.

Political positions

ACT-CIS names the "oppressed and the abused" as the demographic it represents in the House of Representatives, and its platform focuses on crime prevention. It also claims to represent the indigent and

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. The organization supports the reinstatement of

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in the Philippines, believing that executing convicts is an effective

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. It also supported the administration of then-President

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, including his deadly war on drugs. Among the few policies of the Duterte administration that it opposed were the proposal to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility and the

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Electoral history

Electoral performance

Nominees

Representatives to Congress

Criticism

Election watchdog

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claims that representation of marginalized groups is not a function that ACT-CIS serves given that the group's second nominee in 2019 Jocelyn Tulfo is the sister-in-law of

Ramon Tulfo Ramon "Mon" Teshiba Tulfo Jr. (; born November 22, 1946) is a Filipino TV host, radio broadcaster and newspaper columnist. Early life and career Ramon Tulfo is the eldest of ten siblings, with six brothers and three sisters, namely Tuchi, Bo ...

, the Philippine President's special envoy to China. She also has ties with former tourism secretary

Wanda Tulfo Teo Wanda Corazon Teshiba Tulfo-Teo (; born November 4, 1952) is a Filipino travel agent who served as Secretary of the Philippines' Department of Tourism under the Duterte administration from July 2016 until her resignation on May 8, 2018. Earl ...

, who was implicated in allegations of an anomalous government transaction, according to Kontra Daya.

External links

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References

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