Sanlakas is a
party-list organization in the
Philippines. It is a progressive coalition of different marginalized sectors in the Philippines founded on October 29, 1993.
After topping the party-list tally in the
National Capital Region,
Sanlakas won a seat in the
House of Representatives in 1998, the first party-list elections in the
Philippines. Sanlakas won a seat in the lower house for the second time in 2001.
Some of the notable affiliates of Sanlakas are
Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino,
Kongreso ng Pagkakaisa ng Maralita ng Lungsod (KPML), Aniban ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (AMA),
(ZOTO),
(MMVA),
Alliance of Transport Operators Member Intra-Cebu (ATOMIC),
(TDC),
Pagkakaisa ng mga Manggagawa sa Transportasyon (PMT), and Piglas-Kabataan.
Track record
Known as an
activist
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political party, Sanlakas constantly figures in protest actions against certain policies of the government like the Electric Power Industry Reform Act,
the Cybercrime Prevention Act,
the Mining Act of 1995,
among others.
Sanlakas was also a petitioner in several cases in the
Supreme Court of the Philippines
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against Philippine laws and policies they deem detrimental to the welfare of the Filipino people like the Oil Deregulation Law,
and the declaration of a State of Rebellion during the time of President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Among the victims of the serial killings of political activists in the Philippines, during the Arroyo administration, are Sanlakas members like trade unionist Andrew Inoza,
peasant leader
Frank Labial,
and revolutionary socialist
Filemon Lagman. Lagman, one of the founders
of Sanlakas, is considered as the first prominent victim of political assassination under the presidency of Gloria Arroyo.
Representatives to Congress
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11th Congress (1998–2001) - Rene Magtubo, Mario Cruz
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12th Congress (2001–2004) - Jose Virgilio Bautista
2013 elections
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) accredited Sanlakas for the 2013 party-list elections after being delisted earlier due to their failure to participate in the 2010 elections.
Congressional nominees
#Manjette Lopez - Sanlakas National President and Freedom from Debt Coalition Vice President
#Tita Flor Santos - Sanlakas National Treasurer, a veteran urban poor organizer and adviser to the MMVA
#Aaron Pedrosa - Sanlakas Secretary-General and a former student leader
#Rasti Delizo - Sanlakas Auditor and an expert on foreign policy and geo-politics
#Erwin Puhawan - Migrant workers advocate
and labor leader
Electoral performance
Veterans Federation Party vs. COMELEC
References
See also
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Partido Lakas ng Masa
{{Philippine political parties
Party-lists represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Political parties established in 1993
Socialist parties in the Philippines
1993 establishments in the Philippines