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		Politics of the Philippines takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of the Philippines is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
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	Party-list groups ... - May 18, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		During the recent Binatbatan Festival here, for example, the Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives (Apec) dressed up a kalesa (horse-drawn rig) with a giant electric meter during the Kalesa parade.
		As a result, Apec and Bayan Muna were at the top of the list of vote getters in Ilocos Sur's party-list elections.
		Apec garnered 18,537 votes, almost twice that of second-placer Bayan Muna which got 9,184 votes.
	www.inq7.net /reg/2004/may/18/text/reg_6-1-p.htm (251 words)

	University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives - Cooperative Grocer - Philippine Cooperative Movement
		Cooperatives are compatible to the Filipino culture whose concepts and practices of "bayanihan" (cooperation) preceded the coming of the Spaniards.
		On July 1, 1979, the Philippine Rural Electric Cooperatives Association, Inc. (PHILRECA), previously known as Federation of Electric Cooperatives in the Philippines (FECOPHIL) was registered with the NEA as the umbrella organization of the 119 electric coops providing electricity in 73 provinces and 1,417 cities and municipalities as of 1993.
		The over-all accomplishments of the electric coops nationwide as of the year-end 1992 are the energizing of 3,471,803 households or 50% accomplishment, 1,337 towns and cities (94% accomplishment) 22,487 barangays (93% accomplishment) and the attainment of 94% collection efficiency from the consumers.
	www.uwcc.wisc.edu /info/abroad/sibal.html (9132 words)

	Sun.Star Baguio - Country's cooperative movement threatened by taxation proposals
		Teachers' cooperatives would raise prices of goods and services to their members and the school population; workers' cooperatives would have to raise prices of goods and services offered to their members, pushing them to demand for wage adjustments.
		In a separate position paper, the Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives said the estimated P1 billion in annual revenues to be realized by the government from taxing the 119 rural electric cooperatives would have to be shouldered by consumers.
		It said the surpluses generated by electric cooperatives are needed to energize 4,000 barangays, especially remote areas which private power firms are unwilling to serve as they are non-viable.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/bag/2005/01/23/news/country.s.cooperative.movement.threatened.by.taxation.proposals.html (593 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| BUSINESS > Cap on VAT to close down low-profit businesses–group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In a position paper, the Philippine Business Leaders Forum’s Economic Intelligence Unit said the 70-percent cap on chargeable VAT distorts the system from a pure tax on consumption, and is seen as another disincentive to doing or expanding business in the country.
		The Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives Party-List (APEC), meanwhile, said that it will hold a five-minute power shutdown to protest the passage of the new VAT law, which removed electric cooperatives’ VAT exemption.
		APEC and electric cooperatives are now undertaking a nationwide campaign to mobilize the consumer households to shutdown power on Independence Day.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2005/may/23/yehey/business/20050523bus2.html (648 words)

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		By MYRNA M. The electric cooperatives are set to stage a nationwide shutdown of their delivery of service on June 12, Independence Day, as a way of protest to the newly-enacted Expanded Value-Added Tax (E-VAT) law which they deem will jeopardize their continued operations.
		According to the party list group Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives (APEC), the new VAT Law which will pass through an initial 10 percent tax charges starting July 1 this year to electricity consumers will be a punitive measure for them; because they cannot fully pass on such charges to their customers.
		While APEC has been throwing raps that the VAT law favors their giant counterparts, it would be noted that even the bigger utilities, like Manila Electric Company, are complaining on the manner of the VAT law implementation; primarily on the 70 percent cap on creditable VAT input vis-à-vis the output VAT.
	www.mb.com.ph /issues/2005/06/12/BSNS2005061236715.html (453 words)

	DAILY STAR: Top Stories
		All electric cooperatives, including the Central Negros Electric Cooperative, are exempted from franchise tax imposed under Section 119 of the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997, an opinion from the Bureau of Internal Revenue showed.
		The Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives recently wrote the BIR seeking confirmation that its members are exempted from paying franchise taxes following a ruling of the Supreme Court that electric cooperatives are subject to local taxation.
		Electric coops are not subject to the two percent franchise tax because they do not fall under this category, he added.
	www.visayandailystar.com /2003/August/07/topstory4.htm (443 words)

	Sun.Star Baguio - Power coops push for rural electrification program
		Congressmen Ernesto Pablo, Sammy Madamba and Edgar Valdez, all Apec representatives for Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, were in town recently to grace the 23rd general assembly of the Benguet Electric Cooperative (Beneco) last Saturday.
		Madamba said the welfare and interest of electric cooperatives (ECs) employees must also be studied and taken into consideration relative to the requirement of the law.
		These were the appraised assets of the cooperative by an independent appraiser accredited by NEA to determine value refund and the completion and updating of member-consumer records that would guide management for the issuance of the PCCC.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/bag/2003/09/06/news/power.coops.push.for.rural.electrification.program.html (652 words)

	Ang Bagong Bayani-OFW vs. COMELEC, et al. : 147589 : January 29, 2002 : Atty. Puno : En Banc
		Specifically, COMELEC found that APEC was merely an arm of the Philippine Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. (PHILRECA) and that it did not truly represent the marginalized sectors of society.
		APEC and CIBAC were reported to have garnered the following percentages of the total votes cast: APEC – 5.3654% and CIBAC – 2.1317%.
		Although APEC’s nominees are all professionals, its membership is composed not only of professionals but also of peasants, elderly, youth and women.
	www.supremecourt.gov.ph /resolutions/enbanc/2002/Ejan/147589.htm (1054 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| BUSINESS > With VAT bill dead, ‘Plan B’ needed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives party-list said Wednesday that independent power producers should be removed from having a zero value-added tax rate status and placed on a tax-exempt status.
		APEC Party-List Rep. Ernesto C. Pablo also said a zero VAT means these IPPs are able to credit the input VAT as a tax credit to be paid to them by the government.
		In a document furnished to reporters, APEC said that the figures by the Department of Finance indicated that this amounts to P3 billion annually.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2005/feb/24/yehey/business/20050224bus4.html (441 words)

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	Manila Standard Today -- Power co-ops set June 12 protest -- June 10, 2005
		Electric cooperatives vowed to mount a power outage on Sunday to dramatize their protest against the value added tax that is set to be enforced on July 1.
		A 10 percent VAT was imposed on power starting July 1 and 12 percent beginning Jan. 1, 2006, when President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo opted to exercise the “standby authority” that Congress granted her to raise the VAT rate.
		The Apec lawmakers claimed the VAT law was skewed in favor of corporations.
	www.manilastandardtoday.com /?page=news06_june10_2005 (443 words)

	December 18 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Under the EPIRA, these loans of electric cooperatives were condoned to provide them with a fresh start and bring down the power rates by removing the amortization of loan component in the electric bill of six million households.
		By continuously holding on to the debt papers of the cooperatives, the PSALM has prevented the co-ops from borrowing from the private commercial banks and government banks or from accessing to the mortgage market for their expansion or rehabilitation needs.
		Electric cooperatives only recently lost their long-enjoyed tax exemptions specifically from real property taxes and other local taxes by virtue of a Supreme Court decision declaring that only Cooperative Development Authority (CDA)-registered cooperatives are tax-exempt.
	www.news.ops.gov.ph /archives2003/dec18.htm (1630 words)

	Ilocos Times - Online
		With the furor over the Ilocos Norte Electric Cooperative’s alleged overcharging of its member-consumers slowly dying down, we are left with the question of whether we had just been taken for a ride.
		The INEC officials, along with their APEC back-ups, reportedly told Albano that if INEC is found to have overcharged its consumers, then all Philippine cooperatives would also be found to have overcharged their respective consumers since they are all using the same formula.
		In the end, if we are to believe the INEC officials’ pronouncements, the ERC backed off, purportedly to re-investigate the matter, which only showed that when a single electric cooperative screws its consumers it is not fine, but when they all do, officials task to police this rank would have to re-think their options.
	www.ilocostimes.com /may02-may08-05/opinion_less.htm (786 words)

	Manila Standard: The Future is Ours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In the case of the consumers of electricity in homes and businesses, the price of power will immediately go up as the new tax burden is passed on.
		After the consumer advocates like Raul Concepcion, the Foreign Chambers of the Philippines, the association of IPP and the rural power cooperatives are now also asking our senators and congressmen not to slap the tax on sales of generated electricity.
		What this means for the household consumers in the Meralco franchise area, Apec says, is an increase of anywhere from P696 in monthly charges for users in the high 1,200 kwh per month range to P58 for the smallest users who consume only 100 kwh.
	www.manilastandardonline.com /mnlastd?page=jojoRobles_feb25_2005 (1106 words)

	Health News - May 10, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Neil Theise, associate professor of Pathology at the said school of medicine and Dr. Diane Krause, assistant professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Yale University School of Medicine, were among the first to show that stem cells can become liver cells, as well, and the first to demonstrate this transformation in humans.
		The Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives (APEC) said the Arroyo government’s move to suspend power increases and reduce the cost of fuel and power adjustment is commendable but it does not address the root of the problem.
		APEC also stressed that the recent 20-centavo power purchase adjustment (PPA) reduction is not enough to unburden the consumer.
	www.doh.gov.ph /news/May102001.htm (2455 words)

	The World Fact Site -- Philippines
		The Philippine Islands became a Spanish colony during the 16th century; they were ceded to the US in 1898 following the Spanish-American War.
		The Philippine Government faces threats from armed communist insurgencies and from Muslim separtists in the south.
		The Philippines was less severely affected by the Asian financial crisis of 1998 than its neighbors, aided in part by annual remittances of $6-7 billion from overseas workers.
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	Electric coops protest 'triple whammy' VAT - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		BAGUIO CITY—The country's 119 power utility cooperatives are protesting the impending imposition of the value-added tax (VAT) on the power sector beginning January 2006.
		Apec said government's electricity consumption can best illustrate the impact of VAT on power.
		Apec Rep. Ernesto Pablo, the party-list chair, said lifeline rates were "illusory" because these are financed by those with higher electricity consumption, and not by the government.
	news.inq7.net /nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=37769 (559 words)

	Clean Air Initiative: Asia - Arroyo bares energy independence, savings reform package (Sun Star Manila)
		The use of the inactive plants is part of the five-point reform package on energy independence and savings, which Arroyo bared in her speech at the 25th anniversary of the Philippine Rural Electric Cooperatives Association (Philreca) at the Philippine Trade Training Center (PTTC).
		Arroyo also asked the three party-list representatives of the Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives (Apec) to support the bill granting a franchise to the Transmission Corp. to help plug the public sector deficit.
		She asked the electric cooperatives to go for a single-digit systems loss percentage by 2010 to make them globally competitive.
	www.cleanairnet.org /asia/1412/article-58882.html (1207 words)

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		Such awkward situation was sparked by a reply by party-list Rep. Edgar Valdez of Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives (APEC) over a query at the open forum stressing that local electric cooperatives should at least meet the quota in the percentage votes for them to given pork barrel.
		Valdez, who represents APEC for Mindanao, responded electric cooperatives with the most number of percentage votes will be given top priority from his congressional fund since there are 33 electric cooperatives in Mindanao.
		Among them, Valdez said, were reduction of 32 centavos per kilowatt hour of electricity consumption, condonation of debts by electric cooperatives with the government of which ASELCO was spared with the still R40 million loan and the R
	www.mb.com.ph /issues/2004/02/13/PROV200402132173.html (561 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Philippine Government faces threats from armed communist insurgencies and from Muslim separatists in the south.
		The Philippines was less severely affected by the Asian financial crisis of 1998 than its neighbors, aided in part by its high level of annual remittances from overseas workers, and no sustained runup in asset prices or foreign borrowing prior to the crisis.
		The Philippines' consistently large budget deficit has produced a high debt level, and this situation has forced Manila to spend a large portion of the national government budget on debt service.
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	Politics of the Philippines - Wikipedia Light!
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		There are 24 senators serving 6 years in the Senate while the House of Representatives consists of no more than 250 congressmen each serving 3-year terms.
		The regions themselves do not possess a separate local government, with the exception of the Muslim Mindanao and Cordillera regions, which are autonomous.
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	Malaya-The National Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The use of the inactive plants is part of the five-point reform package on energy independence and savings which Arroyo bared in her speech at the 25th anniversary of the Philippine Rural Electric Cooperatives Association (Philreca) at the Philippine Trade Training Center.
		She said the Energy Development Corp. of the Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) will be upgraded to improve success rates in discovering new oil and gas reserves.
		Arroyo also asked the three partylist representatives of the Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives (Apec) to support a bill granting a franchise to the Transmission Corp. to help plug the public sector deficit.
	www.malaya.com.ph /aug07/news1.htm (717 words)

	P200 hike in power rates projected - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		BAGUIO CITY-The party-list group association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives (Apec) yesterday said consumers in the provinces should expect an almost P200 increase in their November and December power consumption bills due to the value added tax on electricity.
		Luis Manuel Corral, Apec secretary general, released a comparative list of electricity price increases for consumers in Abra, Ilocos Sur, Quezon, Bohol, Zamboanga City and other regions to justify the party's amendatory bill exempting power generation from the VAT coverage.
		According to Apec's tabulation, VAT will impose an average increase of 45 centavos to 80 centavos for every kilowatt hour (kwh) of electricity generated by the Abra Electric Cooperative, the Ilocos Sur Electric Cooperative, the Zambales I Electric Cooperative, the Cebu III Electric Cooperative, Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative and three Zamboanga power companies.
	news.inq7.net /regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=54009 (475 words)

	House of Representatives of the Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The House of Representatives of the Philippines (Filipino: Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan ng Pilipinas) is the lower chamber of the Congress of the Philippines.
		This is the division of seats as published on the website of the House of Representatives.
		Democratic Socialist Party of the Philippines (Partido Demokratiko Sosyalista ng Pilipinas)
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