The ACT-CIS Partylist (pronounced "act CIS"), officially the Anti-Crime and Terrorism Community Involvement and Support Partylist,[1] is a political organization which has party-list representation in the House of Representatives of the Philippines.
From 2013 to 2016, ACT-CIS was represented by former police officer Samuel Pagdilao. ACT-CIS returned to the House of Representatives in 2019, when it started to become associated with media personality brothers Erwin and Raffy Tulfo.
History
At the 2013 elections, ACT-CIS received an endorsement from the Iglesia ni Cristo.[2][3] The organization's seat was filled in by former police officer Samuel Pagdilao who had a platform against crime.[4][5]
For the 2016 election, Samuel Pagdilao forewent from being included in the nominee list for ACT-CIS to run for Senator.[5] The ACT-CIS nominee list is led by first-nominee samuel's wife Maria Rosella Pagdilao.[6] ACT-CIS failed to secure any seat.[7]
In 2019 election, ACT-CIS topped the party-list race.[8] ACT-CIS got the most number of votes in the party-list race with 2,651,987 votes.[9] Sometime before the election, Eric Yap a friend of media personality Erwin Tulfo acquired ACT-CIS from Pagdilao.[7] Since then the party became associated with Erwin, and his brother Raffy Tulfo.[10][11]
ACT-CIS became the most voted party-list again in 2022.[12]
Political positions
ACT-CIS names the "oppressed and the abused" as the demographic it represents in the House of Representatives, and its platform focuses on crime prevention.[13] It also claims to represent the indigent and Overseas Filipino Workers.[7]
Election watchdog Kontra Daya claims that representation of marginalized groups is not a function that ACT-CIS serves given that the group's second nominee in 2019 Jocelyn Tulfo is the sister-in-law of Ramon Tulfo, the Philippine President's special envoy to China.[25] She also has ties with former tourism secretary Wanda Tulfo Teo, who was implicated in allegations of an anomalous government transaction, according to Kontra Daya.[25][26]
^"Death penalty ipasa na - ACT-CIS" [Pass death penalty now - ACT-CIS]. Pilipino Star Ngayon (in Filipino). Philippine Star. September 16, 2019. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
