section_path: Issues concerning party-list group nominees/Ang Bagong Bayani-OFW Labor Party vs. COMELEC
section_name: Ang Bagong Bayani-OFW Labor Party vs. COMELEC
paragraph_text: Ang Bagong Bayani-OFW Labor Party vs. COMELEC
  
  In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Ang Bagong Bayani-OFW Labor Party vs. COMELEC that nominees "must be Filipino citizens belonging to marginalized and unrepresented sectors, organizations and parties, as the constitution intended to give genuine power to the people, not only by giving more law to those who have less in life, but more so by enabling them to become veritable lawmakers themselves."
  
  In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Ang Bagong Bayani-OFW Labor Party vs. COMELEC that nominees "must be Filipino citizens belonging to marginalized and unrepresented sectors, organizations and parties, as the constitution intended to give genuine power to the people, not only by giving more law to those who have less in life, but more so by enabling them to become veritable lawmakers themselves."