Our Political Platform No. 29
Apply to everyone the Constitutional ban against relatives of incumbent government officials up to the second degree from seeking public office simultaneously or succeeding the former, and to make it unlawful for any member of the Senate or the House of Representatives to run for another office without first resigning from his/her current position six months before the elections.
1987 Constitution
“The State shall guarantee equal access to opportunities for public service and prohibit political dynasties as may be defined by law” (Art. II, Sec. 26).
“The Congress shall give highest priority to the enactment of measures that protect and enhance the right of all the people to human dignity, reduce social, economic, and political inequalities, and remove cultural inequities by equitably diffusing wealth and political power for the common good” (Art. XIII, Sec. 1).
Prohibition of Political Dynasties Act of 2011
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