Party-list group Akbayan announced on Sunday, August 1, it will be fielding nominees who have championed youth, health, and democracy issues for the 2022 polls as it seeks to make a comeback in the House of Representatives during the next election.
The group’s nominees also advocated for a wide range of issues including LGBTQ+ rights, mental health, as well as youth, women’s, and democracy issues.was the first openly gay student council chairperson of the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1997. Naguit – who obtained his nursing degree in 2012 and degree in medicine in 2017 from the University of Santo Tomas – is the founder of the Youth for Mental Health Coalition.
, which managed the rare feat of getting at least one of its candidates elected into Congress in every election year since 1998.said the results of the 2019 party-list race showed the terrain for the party-list system of representation “is now mainly about money, power, and influence rather than on sectoral advocacies.”