Party List is Redundant

What's al the fuss about party list? I consider the post redundant and a total waste of space and resources. In the first place the scope responsibility covered by the individual representatives. As you see the country is devided into congressional districts and the local congressional representative has the responsibility to represent his/her constituents in all the matters that concerns them. May it be about housing, education, health, women's welfare labor, etc. The representative has the duty to see to it that the population being represented is taken care of. That is aside from the responsibility as a law maker or perhaphs building sheds, basketball courts and such petty projects etc.

People might say I am too idealistic but if anyone reflects on this they will understand. It's basic. The post of a congressional representative was created for this purpose and this alone. That is why I am questioning why do we have to waste our resources on this redundant posts. Even in the senate these areas are being advocated.

In my opinion REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7941 is not well thought of properly. Although it is somehow patterned to from the countries in Europe, most of its provisions has loopholes and endless oppotunity for abuse. Section 5 is one example. That is why so many party list have registered and most of them are redundantly nuissance and a front for personal interests of few people and does not reflect representation of the marginalized "massa".

I am not a person who has an inclination to law and politics but this annoying issue forced me to read sources in order to uunderstand the basics of these all.

A good example of the working politics is the system in the United Kingsom.(I am not endorsing the system being parliamentary) They just finished the midterm elections. The pattern of representation is like what we have. They have the members of the parliament which are elected by constituency and they have local councillors. Mayors work with councillors to filter issues and deal with it while bigger issues are elevated to county or to national level. They don't need to beg from national MP to create a shed or path walk or basketball court. It is all covered by the local council which is the town and barangay in our case. MP represents their concerns to the national government.

You may say the economic state is different. Well it is different indeed but proportionately the same as our state here. We don't have winter to deal with by the way. One classic example is the issue of heating during winter in the homes of the elderly (majority lives alone as it is the social structure). This problem is national in scope but they are dealt with by respetive councils. Legislations are made to support local council to deal with it locally.

What I'm trying to point out is, that issues that are in the scope of the district representative should be dealt with and the creation of another position to deal with it is REDUNDANT and therefore a waste of space in the congress and of national esources.

We the citizens are being deceived by the so called sectoral representation. Whether it be for the propagation of progressive groups or enhancement of financial gain or just merely for support of the person or group in power, it still doesn't justify the seat they occupy in the congress.