It threw the party-list system wide open to any Tom, Dick and Harry who can think of a party name. The same elite, powerful and influential characters are running in the party lists. Regular political parties like Lakas, Liberal Party and Aksyon Demokratiko, etc. are running in the party-list system. Some candidates are running both in the regular party tickets and in the party lists. If they don t win in one, they can win in the other.
Some parties are mere letters in the alphabet.
This has made the party-list system and the elections a farce. All because we have a bunch of incompetents in the Comelec. If the Comelec cannot implement the party-list system as conceived by the Constitution and enforce the rules on posters, we might as well scrap them in the 2004 elections. OFWs already pay income taxes to the governments of the countries they work in. If they still pay income tax to the Philippines, that would be against the principle of double taxation.