Senate President Vicente Sotto III
(Joseph Vidal/Senate PRIB)
This was one of his proposed amendments to Republic Act No. 7941 or the Party List System Act, according to the bill he filed on Monday afternoon.
In his Senate Bill No. 1989, Sotto sought the refusal or cancellation of the registration of party, organization or coalition that “directly or indirectly [participate] in acts detrimental to the best interest of the government, to overthrow the government or diminish its powers or to be associated by any means to rebels or those designated and/or proscribed as terrorist persons or groups under the Republic Act No. 11479 or the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020.”