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- ↑ "List of National Candidates for Verification". Comelec.gov.ph. January 22, 2016. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
- ↑ "Comelec raffles off party-list slots in ballot". Rappler . December 14, 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
- ↑ Villa, Jet (February 6, 2016). "116 party-list groups make it to ballots". InterAksyon. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
- ↑ "Resolution No. 10061" (PDF). Commission on Elections . Retrieved February 24, 2016.
- ↑ "Party-list rep, CDO lawmaker go for Duterte". Philippine Daily Inquirer . March 28, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2016.