A recently filed House bill calls for the “reapportionment” of the country’s 253 legislative districts, a move that may lead to additional seats in the chamber. | JMAurelioINQ /PDI
The bill called for the reapportionment of existing representations, wherein a minimum population of at least 400,000 people will constitute one district, provided that no existing district will be deprived of its representation.
It also proposed that a city or province with a population of at least 250,000 will have at least one representative.In a message to the Inquirer, Rodriguez explained: “One hundred nine million Filipinos divided by 400,000 for each district will be ideally 273 districts. Instead of a 250,000 population, new districts need to have 400,000 [each].
“This requirement will now make it more difficult to create new districts,” said the Cagayan de Oro lawmaker, who also chairs the House committee on constitutional amendments.The current House membership of 312 congressmen includes 251 district representatives and 61 party-list lawmakers. Two districts are currently under “caretaker” representatives.According to the 2020 national census, the reference point of the bill, there were 109,035,343 Filipinos as of May 1 that year.
Should the bill be passed, the likely increase in House membership will not only apply to the districts but also to party list seats, which should be equivalent to 20 percent of the legislative districts.
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