Akbayan Citizens' Action Party | |
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President | Rafaela David |
Chairperson | Mylene Hega |
Secretary-General | Jordan Gutierrez |
Founded | January 1998 |
Headquarters | 52 Masikap Street, Barangay Pinyahan, Quezon City |
Youth wing | Akbayan Youth |
Women's wing | Akbayan Women |
Membership | 100,000 |
Ideology | Participatory politics Progressivism Democratic socialism[1][2] Social democracy[2] |
Political position | Centre-left[2] |
National affiliation | TRoPa (2022) Otso Diretso (2019) Koalisyon ng Daang Matuwid (2016) Team PNoy (2013) |
Regional affiliation | Network of Social Democracy in Asia[3] |
International affiliation | Progressive Alliance |
Colors | Red Green Purple |
Slogan | Sa Akbayan, Panalo ang Mamamayan! ("With Akbayan, the People Win!") |
Seats in the Senate | 1 / 24
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Seats in the House of Representatives | 0 / 304
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City and municipal councilors | 10 / 16,812
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Website | |
akbayan |
The Akbayan Citizens' Action Party, better known as Akbayan (lit. 'the escorting of each other' or 'the support for one another' or 'the collective putting of an arm over the shoulders of another'), is a democratic socialist and progressive[4] political party in the Philippines. Akbayan is noted as a leading member of the progressive movement in the Philippines,[5][2] having been formed in 1998 by a variety of progressive political organizations.
There are approximately 100 thousand members of Akbayan, with a pool of voter interest ranging anywhere between 150 thousand to 1 million people (at most 2.5% of Philippine active voters).
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