MANILA, Dec. 2 -- Senator Bam Aquino has filed a measure seeking to overhaul the country's party-list system to ensure it genuinely represents marginalized and underrepresented sectors, amid growing concerns that powerful political clans and corporations have captured the system.

Aquino said Senate Bill No. 1559, or the Party-List Reform Act, aims to restore the system to its original purpose by introducing stronger safeguards and stricter screening of party-list groups and their nominees.

"These findings underscore an urgent and undeniable truth: the party-list system is being exploited by the powerful at the expense of those it was designed to uplift," he said Tuesday.

A 2025 report from election watchdog Kontra Daya found that 86 of...