Only Abono Wins Out of 5 P’sinense Lead Partylists

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

DAGUPAN CITY – Among the five Pangasinenses lead partylist, only the province’s homegrowns Abono wins in the latest survey of the Pulse Asia for the partylists’ election on May 12.

Based on the March 25 to 29, 2025 polls, Abono entered the winning Top 45 partylist seats for the 63 congressmen from the partylist needed to fulfill the constitutional mandates that twenty percent (20%) of the 313 members of the the House of Representatives should be allocated to partylists.

Forty-five (45) partylists should have won incase election was held on that period and not 63 because Tingog, ACT -CIS, Duterte Youth, PPP, and 4Ps got three seats each while Senior Citizens, Ako Bicol, Uswag Ilonggo, Alona, 1-Rider, Malasakit, Bayanihan, Cibac, and Agap garnered two seats each or a total of 28 seats for 18 parties only.

A party that got 6% or more of the total votes cast for the present 156 party lists that vie for the May 12, 2025 election gets three seats while those that got 4% and 2% of the total votes get two seats and one seat, respectively.

In the survey, Abono got 1.04% of the respondents or No. 26 on the 45 party that won the March 25-29 poll in case election was held on that period.

There are 155 partylists that shoved and jostled for the May 12, 2025 national and local elections.

Abono Partylist represents the agriculture and marginalized sector especially the population of Pangasinan province. Its first nominee is Congressman Robert Raymund Estrella – a resident of Rosales, Pangasinan -- while its chair and treasurer is Eng. Rosendo O. So.

In the elections of 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2022, Abono got 1 seat, 2 seats, 2 seats, 2 seats, 1 seat, and 1 seat, respectively.

Pulse Asia said at least 99 percent of respondents’ report awareness of the party-list system. It added that out of the 155 party-list groups participating in the May 2025 elections, 45 would secure at least one seat if the elections were held at present.

Pulse said it conducted its pre-election preference survey for the 2025 senatorial race from March 23 to March 29 through face-to-face interviews, covering 2,400 randomly selected Filipinos.