A party, he added, works to get hold of the entire government while a partylist either works for sectoral interests and sectoral ideological advocacies.
He said partylist aggregates, articulates and implements sectoral interests, in our particular Philippine case, for the marginalized sectors supposedly.
He said a partylist can remain advocates of an ideological line without getting into positions of power.
It can work for policy changes for the benefit of a sector or sectors.
In short, a partylist does not necessarily work to gain positions of power but also for policy changes.
Partylist seems to be limited in scope compared to a full blown national political party with candidates for national and local positions.
Platform, vision of a future society with theory of Philippine society and laws of its social development, these are the elements of an ideology that must be satisfied by a political party worth its name, Tayag said.
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