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There many and diverse political parties in the Philippines. Most party memberships consists
primarily of political figures and leaders, with little or no grassroots membership. [citation needed]
The Philippines has a multi-party system with numerous political parties, in which no one party often
has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition
governments for political expediency and convenience. Since no political parties have sustaining
membership to which party leaders are developed, most of the political parties have the rise-and-falland-rise character.
There are three types of parties in the Philippines. These are: (a) major parties, which typically
correspond to traditional political parties; (b) minor parties or party-list organizations, which rely on
the party-list system to win Congressional seats; and (c) regional or provincial parties, which
correspond to region-wide or province-wide organizations, respectively.
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3 Local parties
5 Historical parties/coalitions
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5.1 Parties
6 See also
7 References
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Citizens' Action
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Political Party
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These are the other national parties that contested the 2013 elections. COMELEC classifies
"national" parties as parties that are not restricted to one locality (province/district/city/municipality).
Abbr.
Leader
Reynaldo Pacheco
DPP
Baldomero Falcone
Bagumbayan-Volunteers for a
New Philippines (New NationVolunteers for a New
Philippines)
Bagumbaya
Richard Gordon
n
Perfecto Yasay
Makabayang Koalisyon ng
Mamamayan(Patriotic Alliance
of the People)
Makabayan
or MKB
Rafael V. Mariano
SJS
Samson Alcantara
Notes
Abbr.
Leader
Notes
Aksyon
Demokratiko (Democratic
Action)
Akyson
Sonia Roco
PLM
Sonny Melencio
Partido ng Manggagawa at
Magsasaka(Workers' and
Farmers' Party)
PMM
Hermogenes Ebdane
Other parties[edit]
Name
Abbr.
Abag PROMDI
Leader
Archilles Canete
ABC
APP
Manny Villar
Katipunan ng Demokratikong
Pilipino (Society of Democratic
Filipinos)
Bago
Eduardo Bondoc
KKK
Rafaelito Garayblas
Joel Pontillas
Notes
OSME
A
PDSP
Norberto Gonzales
Susan Ople
Partido ng Demokratikong
Reporma (Party for Democratic
Reform)
PDR
Renato de Villa
PGRP
Felix Cantal
Rizalist Party
Rizalist
Gregorio Maunahan
Sanlakas party-list
Sanlakas
SJS
Samson Alcantara
Local parties[edit]
Name
Abbr.
Location
Leader
Buklod Capampangan
Estelito Mendoza
Bileg Ti La Union
La Union
Joaquin Ortega
Christian Muslim
Independent Party
Tiburcio Pasquil
Notes
Move Makati
Makati
Romulo de Guzman
Nueva Ecija
Tomas Joson
affiliated
with Nationalist
People's Coalition
Cavite
Victor Remulla
affiliated
with Nacionalista
Party
Quezon City
Bicol Region
Ma. Corazon
Imperial
Carlito Guang
Panaghuisa
John Osmea
Negros Occidental
Alfredo
Montelibano, Jr.
Sarangani Reconciliation
and Reformation
SARRO
Organization
Sarangani
Estelito Mendoza
Eastern Samar
Jaime Opinion
Philippine Christian
Nationalist Party
Quezon City
Andres Genito
Retailers Party
Estelito Mendoza
BALANE
Partido Magdalo
MDP
Bicol Saro
Kabalikat ng Bayan sa
Kaunlaran
KABAKA
supports Lito
Atienza
affiliated
with Lakas Kampi
CMD
Mindanao
Ebrahim
Abdurrahman
Cavite
Franco Loyola
Liping Kalookan
Caloocan
Macario Asistio
Western Visayas
Rene Juaneza
Lingap Lugud
Capampangan Party
Pampanga
Lito Lapid
Joey Alangwawi
Philip Camara
Democratic Alliance of
Mindanaoans for Good
Government
Davao
Region andSOCCSKSARGE
N
Fernando Toquillo
Pusyon Pilipino
Central Visayas
Casimiro
Madarang, Jr.
Central Visayas
Geraldo Carillo
People's Progressive
Alliance for Peace and
Good Government
Towards Alleviation of
Poverty and Social
Advancement
Partido
PAGASA
DAMAGO
formerly Grand
Kalookan
Coalition
affiliated
with Lakas Kampi
CMD
MRP
Kamar Mindalano
Katipunan ng Bagong
Caloocan
KABACA
Caloocan
Gwendolyn
Emnace
Geraldo Carillo
Ummah Party
Bileg Ti Ilocano
BILEG
Ilocos Sur
Luis Singson
UNA
Negros Occidental
Alfredo Maraon,
Jr.
Quezon Nationalist
Democratic Party
Bienvenido
Marquez, Jr.
Tarlac
Candido Guiam
Paraaque
Joey Marquez
Democratic Alliance
DA
Central Luzon
Romeo Taruc
Barog Alang sa
Kausawagan ug
Demokrasya
BAKUD
Alayon Alang sa
Kalambu-an ng Kalinaw
ALAYON
Central Visayas
John Osmea
Compostela Valley
Rainbow Alliance
CORAL
Compostela Valley
Rogelio Sarmiento
affiliated
with Nationalist
People's Coalition
Taguig
Dante Tinga
Katig-buan Nortehanon
Northern Samar
Emil Ong
Cotabato
Emmanuel Piol
Biliran
Danilo Parilla
Pangkat Laguna
Laguna
Marito Mendoza
Partido Tapat
Edmundo de Borja
Catanduanes
Dexter Francisco
People's Alliance
Development of
Romblon
PADER
Romblon
ATUN
Negros Occidental
Rafael Coscolluela
KUSUG
Cebu City
Alvin Garcia
Autonomous Region in
Basher Caluato
Muslim Mindanao, Lanao del
Edris
Norte and Zamboanga del Sur
People's Consultative
(Mushawara) Party
CATAPAT
Caloocan
Bonifacio Alis
affiliated
with Liberal Party
also known as
Taguig-Pateros
Action Team
Partido Batangueo
Batangas
Franklin Tabaquin,
Jr.
Ugyon
Visayas
Franklin Drilon
affiliated
with Liberal Party
Bulacan
Manuel G. Roxas
affiliated
with Liberal Party
Nagkakaisang Partido ng
mga Kapampangan
Pampanga
Zenaide Ducut
Toby Tiangco
Affiliated
with Pwersa ng
Masang
Pilipino and Unite
d Nationalist
Alliance
Laguna
Teresita Lazaro
affiliated
with Lakas Kampi
CMD
Timawa
Iloilo City
Rona AnapeGanzon
affiliated
with United
Nationalist
Alliance
Casan
Macabanding
Caloocan
Russel Ramirez
Billy
Bibit/Clodualdo
Dedicatoria
Autonomous Region in
Aleem Abdul
Partido Navoteo
NAVOTENO Navotas
Partido Dimasalang
Siap Party
UGP
Muslim Mindanao
Matabalo Amerol
Economic Development
EDSA
and Social Advancement
Central Visayas
Melchor Cubillo
Biskeg na Pangasinan
Party
BISKEG
Pangasinan
Oscar Lambino
Padajon Surigao
PS
affiliated
Francisco Matugas with Lakas Kampi
CMD
United Citizens of
Caloocan Party
UCCP
Caloocan
Nilo Divina
Alliance of Bicolnon
Party
ABPBICOLNON
Bicol Region
Enrique Olonan
People's Champ
Movement
PCM
affiliated
with Lakas Kampi
CMD
affiliated
with United
Nationalist
Alliance
Manny Pacquiao
Bicol Region
Elizalde Co
Unang Sigaw-Partido ng
Pagbabago
Nueva Ecija
Aurelio Umali
affiliated
with Lakas Kampi
CMD
San Juan
Joseph Victor
Ejercito
affiliated
with Pwersa ng
Masang Pilipino
Liloan, Cebu
Vincent Frasco
USPP
Partido Magdiwang
Democracy of the
Independent Liberal
Conservative Party
DILC
Partido Pagbabago ng
Palawan
PPP
Kalapian ng mga
Kaibigan ng KaunlaranBayan ng Hagonoy
SPP
Vincent Dennis
Socrates
Palawan
Jose Alvarez
affiliated
with Lakas Kampi
CMD
Capiz
Frenedil Castro
affiliated
with United
Nationalist
Alliance
Cagayan
affiliated
with Lakas Kampi
CMD
Zamboanga City
Oriental Mindoro
Agustin Cusi
One Cebu
1-CEBU
Cebu
affiliated
Gwendolyn Garcia with National
Unity Party
Adelante Zamboanga
Party
AZAP
Zamboanga City
Jose Lobregat
UK CAPIZ
Ali Sangki
Lingkod Bayan-Sulong
Taguig Coalition
Angelito Reyes
LINGKOD
TAGUIG
Taguig
Arsenio Escuderro,
Jr.
Kapanalig at Kambilan
Ning Memalen
Pampanga
KAMBILAN Pampanga
Rosve Henson
Partido Malolenyo
PM
Carolina
Mangawang
Malolos, Bulacan
Asenso Manileo
Movement
AMM
Manila
Danilo Lacuna
AIM
South Cotabato
Adelbert Antonino
Partido Balikatan ng
Bataan
BALIKATAN Bataan
affiliated
with Nacionalista
Party andLiberal
Party, coalition
partner
withKapayapaan,
Kaunlaran at
Katarungan
Manila
Alfredo Lim
affiliated
with Liberal Party,
coalition partner
with Asenso
Manileo
Movement
Cebu
Tomas Osmea
affiliated
with Liberal Party
Padayon Pilipino
PDP
Cagayan de Oro
Vicene Emano
affiliated
with Pwersa ng
Masang Pilipino
Partido ABE
PAK, ABE
Kapayapaan, Kaunlaran
at Katarungan
KKK
(chairman)
Alex Cauguiran
(president)
Kapampangan
28, 2012.
Affiliated with
Kambilan of
former president
Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo and
jueteng lord Bong
Pineda.
[3]
Abbr.
Leader
Ideology
Position
Notes
CPP
Jose Maria
Sison
Maoism
Far-left
LPK
Ban James
Lumacad/John
Wendell
Socialist
Lagazo/Jefferso
n Magbutay
Far-left
Partido Komunista ng
Pilipinas-1930 Philippine
Communist Party)
Communism Far-left
Established as Comintern
Philippine branch
Communism Far-left
Partido ng Manggagawang
PMPPilipino Pinagsani Patricio Ramirez Communism Far-left
Pinagsanib(Filipino
b
Workers Party)
Marxist-Leninist Party of
the Philippines(MarxistaLeninistang Partido ng
Pilipinas)
MLPP
Caridad
Magpantay
Arturo
Communism Far-left
Tabara/Nilo dela
Pilipinas (Revolutionary
Workers' Party of the
Philippines)
Philippines established in
1998
Cruz
Historical parties/coalitions[edit]
Parties[edit]
Democratic Alliance
Grand Alliance
KALIBAPI
Lapiang Malaya
Citizens' Party
Progresista Party
Progressive Party
Ganap Party
Major coalitions[edit]
Election
year
Administration
Opposition
1986
Marcos was declared winner but was overthrown at the People Power Revolution days later. His
supporters were forced into opposition.
1987
In 1992, UNIDO broke up and the Marcos loyalists coalesced with the other parties. Fidel V.
Ramos (Lakas-NUCD) won the presidential election and his supporters became the administration
coalition
1995
Lakas-Laban Coalition
1998
Lakas-NUCD-UMDP
In 2001, Joseph Estrada was overthrown at the 2001 EDSA Revolution; his supporters were forced into
opposition.
2001
2004
2007
TEAM Unity
In 2010, the anti-Arroyo forces were split into different parties: Aquino defeated Estrada and eight others
to lead the government under the Liberal Party.
In 2013, the main opposition party Lakas-CMD (formerly as Lakas-Kampi CMD), was weakened
following the arrest of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo,
thus the Estrada-Binay group established the United Nationalist Alliance as the main opposition party.
2013
The first Philippine political party, established in 1900, was the Federal Party, which
advocated peace and eventual statehood. Later, the Nationalist Party (NP) and the
Democratic Party were established. They did not produce an actual two-party system,
since the Nationalists retained exclusive control and the Democrats functioned as a
"loyal opposition." However, following Japanese occupation and the granting of
independence, an effective two-party system developed between the Liberal Party (LP)
and the NP. The Progressive Party, formed in 1957 by adherents of Ramon Magsaysay,
polled more than one million votes in the presidential election of 1958. In the elections
of November 1965, Senator Ferdinand Marcos, the NP candidate, received 55% of the
vote. In the 1969 election, he was elected to an unprecedented second term. All political
activity was banned in 1972, following the imposition of martial law, and was not
allowed to resume until a few months before the April 1978 elections for an interim
National Assembly. The Marcos government's New Society Movement (Kilusan Bagong
Lipunan- KBL) won that election and the 1980 and 1982 balloting for local officials,
amid charges of electoral fraud and attempts by opposition groups to boycott the voting.
The principal opposition party was the People's Power Movement-Fight (Lakas Ng
Bayan- Laban), led by Benigno S. Aquino, Jr., until his assassination in 1983. This party
joined with 11 other opposition parties in 1982 to form a coalition known as the United
Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO). Following Aquino's murder, some 50
opposition groups, including the members of the UNIDO coalition, agreed to coordinate
their anti-Marcos efforts. This coalition of opposition parties enabled Corazon Aquino to
campaign against Marcos in 1986. In September 1986 the revolutionary left formed a
legal political party to contest congressional elections. The Partido ng Bayan (Party of
the Nation) allied with other left-leaning groups in an Alliance for New Politics. This
unsuccessful attempt for electoral representation resulted in a return to guerrilla
warfare on the part of the Communists.
After assuming the presidency, Aquino formally organized the People's Power
Movement (Lakas Ng Bayan), the successor to her late husband's party. In the
congressional elections of May 1987, Aquino's popularity gave her party a sweep in the
polls, making it the major party in the country. Marcos's KBL was reduced to a minor
party. Some of its members formed their own splinter groups, such as the Grand
Alliance for Democracy (GAD), a coalition of parties seeking distance from Marcos.
Others revived the LP and the NP, seeking renewed leadership. The left-wing People's
Party (Partido Ng Bayan), which supports the political objectives of the NPA, was a
minor party in the elections. In May 1989 Juan Ponce Enrile reestablished the
Nacionalista Party. A new opposition party, the Filipino Party (Partido Pilipino),
organized in 1991 as a vehicle for Aquino's estranged cousin Eduardo "Danding"
Cojuangco's presidential campaign. He ran third in the election, taking 18.1% of the
vote, behind Miriam Defensor Santiago with 19.8% of the vote. On 30 June 1992 Fidel
Ramos succeeded Corazon Aquino as president of the Philippines with a plurality of
23.6%. In September 1992 Ramos signed the Anti-Subversion Law signaling a peaceful
resolution to more than 20 years of Communist insurgency, with the repeal of the
antisubversion legislation in place since 1957. On 26 August 1994 Ramos announced a
new political coalition that would produce the most powerful political group in the
Philippines. Ramos' Lakas-National Union of Christian Democrats (Lakas/NUCD)
teamed with the Democratic Filipino Struggle (Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino,
Laban). Following the 1995 elections, the LDP controlled the Senate with 14 of the 24
members. The elections in 1998 changed the political landscape once more. In the
Senate the newly created Laban Ng Masang Pilipino, led by presidential candidate,
Joseph Estrada, captured 12 seats to the Lakas 5, PRP 2, LP 1, independents 3. The
LAMP party also dominated the House of Representatives with 135 seats to the Lakas
37, LP 13, Aksyon Demokratiko 1, and 35 independents.
Political parties and their leaders in 2002 included: Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (New
Society Movement), led by Imelda Marcos; Laban Ng Demokratikong Pilipino (Struggle
of Filipino Democrats) or LDP, led by Eduardo Angara; Lakas, led by Jose De Venecia;
Liberal Party or LP, led by Florencio Abad; Nacionalista Party, led by Jose Oliveros;
National People's Coalition or NPC, led by Eduardo Cojuangco; PDP-Laban, led by
Aquilino Pimentel; and the People's Reform Party or PRP, led by Miriam DefensorSantiago.
parliament through the chancellor or the ministers concerning current political themes. It cannot
however be obliged to give such statements.