Abono () is a

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in the

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which had party-list representation in the

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. In the May 14, 2007

election An election is a formal group decision-making process whereby a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold Public administration, public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative d ...

, the party won one seat in the nationwide party-list vote. As a party-list it intends to represent the agriculture and marginalized sector especially the population of

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province. The chair and treasurer of Abono is Rosendo O. So.

Members

The Abono party list has one seat in the Party-list sector of the

, that belonging to Department of Agrarian Reform secretary

Conrado Estrella III Conrado Masonsong Estrella III (born September 12, 1960) is a Filipino politician serving as the 15th Secretary of Agrarian Reform, secretary of agrarian reform since 2022. He previously served as a representative for Abono Partylist from 2013 ...

. Estrella was formerly a Pangasinense lawyer before becoming a nominee of the party-list, later becoming a Representative.

Ideology

The Abono Party-list believes

Agriculturalism Agriculturalism, also known as the School of Agrarianism, the School of Agronomists, the School of Tillers, and in Chinese as the ''Nongjia'' (), was an early Agrarianism, agrarian Chinese philosophy that advocated peasant utopian communalism and ...

and regionalism, believing that farmers should have more livelihood programs, and also believing to represent

in the

Electoral performance

Representatives to Congress

Controversies

In 2015, Estrella was one of the representatives charged for the pork barrel scam, an alleged misuse of their Priority Development Assistance Fund, given to each representative. In 2024, the partylist's president,

Umingan Umingan, officially the Municipality of Umingan (; ; ), is a municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Pangasinan, Philippines. According to thPSA2020 census, it has a population of 77,074 people. Um ...

Pangasinan Pangasinan, officially the Province of Pangasinan (, ; ; ), is a coastal Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region of Luzon. Its capital is Lingayen, Pangasinan, Lingayen while San Carlos, Pangasi ...

councilor Ponciano Onia Jr., was shot dead in an ambush.

References

Politics of La Union Politics of Pangasinan Party-lists represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines Regionalist parties in the Philippines Agrarian parties in the Philippines {{Philippines-party-stub