The
2007 Philippine House of Representatives elections were held on May 14, 2007, to elect members to the
House of Representatives of the Philippines to serve in the
14th Congress of the Philippines from June 30, 2007, until June 30, 2010. The
Philippines uses
parallel voting for seats in the House of Representatives.
In district elections, 219
single-member constituencies elect one member of the House of Representatives. The candidate with the
highest number of votes wins that district's seat. In the party-list election, the parties with at least 2% of the national vote were elected, and 21 representatives were elected However, later in 2007 the
Supreme Court ruled in
Banat vs. COMELEC that the 2% quota was unconstitutional, and that the sectoral representatives should comprise exactly 20% of the House. This led to the increase in the number of sectoral representatives to 51.
The administration-led
TEAM Unity maintained control of the House of Representatives although the opposition-backed
Genuine Opposition won control of the
Senate. Incumbent Speaker
Jose de Venecia of
Pangasinan was elected Speaker after being the only one nominated: 186 voted for De Venecia, 1 against (
Eduardo Joson) and 24 abstentions.
Campaign
Genuine Opposition
The
Genuine Opposition (GO) targeted to win at least 80 seats to be able to impeach President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo; however the administration's
TEAM Unity prevented GO in winning several of those seats by fielding in strong candidates...
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