Pulse Asia: Bayan Muna tops party-list poll despite ‘red-tagging’By The Manila TimesMILITANT group Bayan Muna bagged the top spot among all the party-list organizations participating in the May 13 midterm polls, according to the latest Pulse Asia survey released on Thursday. Pulse Asia said the five party-list groups “each garner the ceiling of three seats” following the procedure for allocating the maximum number of 59 seats. The 14 party-list groups secured more than 2 percent support from the voters with party-list group preference, the polling firm said. Pulse Asia said majority awareness was recorded in all geographic areas and socio-economic classes. “Between February and March, awareness of the party-list system becomes more manifest not only at the national level (+13 percentage points) but also in the rest of Luzon (+12 percentage points), the Visayas (+30 percentage points), Class D (+13 percentage points), and Class E (+16 percentage points),” the polling firm added.

Source: Manila Times April 25, 2019 11:26 UTC