Lakas-CMD is dominant majority party; NP dominant minority

Lakas-CMD headed by Speaker Martin Romualdez has been declared as the dominant majority party in the midterm elections in May.

- MAYEN JAYMALIN and DELON PORCALLA

In a nine-page resolution, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) also declared the Nacionalista Party as the dominant minority party.

The Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban), Akbayan Citizens Action Party, Liberal Party of the Philippines, Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC), National Unity Party, Partido Demokratiko Reporma, United Nationalist Alliance and Partido Federal ng Pilipinas were named major political parties.

"This is a significant moment for us — not just as a political organization, but as a team that has consistently worked to move the country forward," Romualdez said inreaction to the Comelec decision.

He also called the Comelec move a “reaffirmation of the party’s legacy of leadership and action.”

Comelec Chairman George Garcia said the selected dominant majority and dominant minority parties would have their own servers and directly receive the election results from polling precincts.

Their being chosen as dominant majority and dominant minority parties was based primarily on their history and on the number of their members, both incumbents and candidates in the coming elections, Garcia said.

In an interview with “Storycon” on