Philippine Rural Electric Cooperatives Association Inc. (Philreca) Party-List is a political organization of the Philippine Rural Electric Cooperatives Association which has

party-list An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can c ...

representation in the

House of Representatives of the Philippines The House of Representatives (; '','' thus commonly referred to as ''Kamara'') is the lower house of Congress of the Philippines, Congress, the bicameral legislature of the Philippines, with the Senate of the Philippines as the upper house. The ...

. It represents the interest of Philreca's member electricity cooperatives and its consumers. It also advocates the sustainability of the rural electrification program, as well as lowering the price of electricity, and the improvement of electricity distribution and service. They participated in the 2019 Philippine elections, where they secured a single seat in the House of Representatives. The seat was filled in by Philreca's President Presley De Jesus. In May 2021, Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) Chairman Greco B. Belgica alleged that electric cooperatives funded Philreca Party-List' 2019 electoral bid adding that "law does not allow public utilities to contribute funds to campaigns of a candidate or a party-list, or use government funds to do so". Philreca representative Presley De Jesus denied such claim saying that the partylist did not receive political contributions from any electric cooperative while also noting that cooperatives are not government organizations and are non-profit bodies supervised by the National Electric Administration

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{{Philippine political parties Party-lists represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines Electric cooperatives of the Philippines