Trade Union Congress Party is a party-list in the
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
, set up by the
Trade Union Congress of the Philippines
The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) is the largest national trade union center in the Philippines. Founded in 1975 by labor leader Democrito Mendoza, TUCP is affiliated with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and ...
as its electoral wing. The party contested the 2004 legislative elections, mustering 201,396 votes nationwide (1.58%). The list failed to win any seat. The Supreme Court declared TUCP, as well as a few other party-list organizations, as winners in the 2007 legislative elections by virtue of the Philippine Constitution.
Electoral performance
Note: Competed in 2001 as Trade Union Congress of the Philippines.
Party-list nominees
For the 2019 elections, only the first nominee of the party won a seat, Raymond Democrito C. Mendoza. He is one of the 70 representatives who
prevented the renewal of the ABS-CBN franchise at the committee level thus making sure the bill did not reach the plenary.
References
Party-lists represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Labor parties in the Philippines
Left-wing parties in the Philippines
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