The Social Amelioration and Genuine Intervention on Poverty (SAGIP), also known as the SAGIP Partylist, is a political organization with

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representation in the

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Background

The Social Amelioration and Genuine Intervention on Poverty (SAGIP) organization was initially established as 1-SAGIP (The "1" was later dropped). It was approved as a partylist organization by the

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to represent the urban poor sector. It took part in the 2013 elections with retired teacher and book distributor Erlinda Santiago as its first nominee. The group also had the endorsement of the

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at least for that particular campaign. 1-SAGIP managed to secure a seat in the

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. For the 2016 elections, SAGIP changed their first nominee to Rodante Marcoleta, a former representative of the Alagad partylist and a lawyer. SAGIP managed to retain their single seat in the

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and

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. It won an additional seat in the 2022 elections.

Electoral performance

Representatives to Congress

References

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