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ON THEIR MARKS. A campaign team of Bayan Muna in Davao City, one of the country’s top partylist contenders, with a total of more than 1.7 million votes gathered, the highest when party list elections began in the country in 2001, is all set for the campaign trail to hit it anew this upcoming polls. (davaotoday.com photo by Alex D. Lopez)

Bayan Muna’s complicated link with Mindanao

DAVAO CITY, Philippines - Bayan Muna was the consistent top-placer in the past party-list election, known for carrying people's issues in an elite-dominated Congress. But in this recent election they…

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Mindanao lawmaker sees nothing wrong with proposed mechanism of Maranao traditional leaders

A Mindanao-based lawmaker believes the traditional conflict? resolution proposed by Maranao traditional leaders might do the trick in the current crisis faced by Marawi City.

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Carlos Zarate, representative of Bayan Muna partylist waves at a child during the Balsa Mindanao's relief drive in Leyte this weekend where they distributed 14,000 relief packs to victims of Typhoon Yolanda. (photo courtesy of Balsa Mindanao Southern Mindanao)

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