Says Comelec ‘way off target’, renews calls for extension of deadline
Kabataan Party-list Rep. Mong Palatino today urged the Commission on Elections to step up its efforts in encouraging more youth and first-time voters to register for the 2010 elections by conducting “more available and accessible satellite registrations” in schools, barangays and communities.
Palatino said that the Comelec is disturbingly ‘way off target’, citing the agency’s data that as of latest, only 841,200 new voters have registered. “This is a far cry from Comelec’s 3 million target come deadline, and even still …

Five years in the making for the country’s sole youth sectoral party-list, but better late than never and victory is still sweet for all Filipino youth.
Kabataan Party-list, the largest youth party in the country, represented the youth sector in the 2007 elections. It was the second time for our organization to run in the party-list elections. In 2004, we ran under our previous name, Anak ng Bayan, and were among the top choices for party-list based on pre-election surveys. Anak ng Bayan, however, fell prey to massive cheating. A significant …

Kabataan Party-list Rep. Mong Palatino expresses his deepest condolences to the family of People Power icon and former President Corazon Aquino.
Kabataan Party-list is one with the youth, the nation and the world in mourning the death of a moral leader who fought for democracy during the turbulent times of the Marcos regime and who continued to fight tyranny and corruption up to the event of her death.
We challenge President Gloria Arroyo to emulate Mrs. Aquino and step down after her term, a courageous and rightful act that Mrs. Aquino did …