ACT-CIS Partylist

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ACT-CIS Partylist
Chairman Erwin Tulfo
Secretary-GeneralJeffrey Soriano
ColorsBlue
SloganAng Partylist ng mga Inaapi
(transl. The Partylist of the Oppressed)
Seats in the House of Representatives
3 / 63
(Party-list seats only)

The ACT-CIS Partylist, officially the Anti-Crime and Terrorism Community Involvement and Support Partylist, [1] is a political organization which has party-list representation in the House of Representatives of the Philippines.

Contents

From 2013 to 2016, ACT-CIS was represented by former police officer Samuel Pagdilao. ACT-CIS returned to the House of Representatives in 2019, when it started to become associated with media personality brothers Erwin and Raffy Tulfo.

History

At the 2013 elections, ACT-CIS received an endorsement from the Iglesia ni Cristo. [2] [3] The organization's seat was filled in by former police officer Samuel Pagdilao who had a platform against crime. [4] [5]

For the 2016 election, Samuel Pagdilao forego from being included in the nominee list for ACT-CIS to run for Senator. [5] The ACT-CIS nominee list is led by first-nominee samuel's wife Maria Rosella Pagdilao. [6] ACT-CIS failed to secure any seat. [7]

In 2019 election, ACT-CIS had a comeback topping the party-list race. [8] ACT-CIS got the most number of votes in the party-list race with 2,651,987 votes. [9] Sometime before the election, Eric Yap a friend of media personality Erwin Tulfo acquired ACT-CIS from Pagdilao [7] Since then the party became associated with Erwin, and his brother Raffy Tulfo. [10] [11]

ACT-CIS became the most voted party-list again in 2022. [12]

Political positions

ACT-CIS names the "oppressed and the abused" as the demographic it represents in the House of Representatives and its platform focuses on crime prevention. [13] It also claimed to represent the indigent and Overseas Filipino Workers. [7]

The organization supports the reinstatement of capital punishment in the Philippines believing that executing convicts is an effective deterrence. [7] [14] [15] [16]

It also supported the administration of the then-President Rodrigo Duterte including his deadly war on drugs. [15] [17] Among the few policies of the Duterte administration that it opposed was the proposal to lower of the minimum age of criminal responsibility and the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Law [7]

Electoral history

Electoral performance

ElectionVotes %Party-list seats
2013 377,1651.36%
2 / 58
2016 109,3000.34%
0 / 59
2019 2,651,9879.51%
3 / 61
2022 2,111,0915.74%
3 / 63

Nominees

ElectionNomineePositionStatusRef.
2013 Jerome Oliveros1st nomineeWithdrew [18]
Manuel Pamaran2nd nomineeWithdrew
Miguel Ortiz3rd nomineeWithdrew
Samuel Pagdilao Jr.Position unknown1st representative
2016 Maria Rosella Pagdilao1st nomineeNo seats won [19]
Benjardi Mantele2nd nominee
Victor Michael Carambas3rd nominee
Robert Allan Arabejo4th nominee
Johnny Young5th nominee
2022Edvic Go Yap1st nominee1st representative [20]
Jocelyn Tulfo 2nd nominee2nd representative
Jeffrey Soriano3rd nominee3rd representative
(2022–2023; resigned)
Erwin Tulfo 4th nominee3rd representative (since 2023)
Effie Vanessa Ynson5th nomineeUnused

Representatives to Congress

Period1st representative2nd representative3rd representative
16th Congress
2013–2016		 Samuel Pagdilao Jr. ——
18th Congress
2019–2022		 Eric Yap
(also ad-interim caretaker of Legislative district of Benguet)		 Jocelyn Tulfo Rowena Niña Taduran
19th Congress
2022–2025		Edvic G. Yap Jocelyn Tulfo Jeffrey Soriano
(2022–2023; resigned [21] )
Erwin Tulfo
(2023– [22] )

Criticism

Election watchdog Kontra Daya claims that representation of marginalized groups is not a function that ACT-CIS serves given that the group’s second nominee in 2019 Jocelyn Tulfo is the sister-in-law of Ramon Tulfo, the Philippine President's special envoy to China. [23] She also has ties with former tourism secretary Wanda Tulfo Teo, who was implicated in allegations of an anomalous government transaction, according to Kontra Daya. [23] [24]

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