House files anti-political dynasty bill

House Speaker Faustino "Bojie" Dy III and House Majority Leader Ferdinand Alexander "Sandro" Marcos have filed House Bill No. 6771, an Anti-Political Dynasty Bill.

The proposed legislation aims to prevent spouses, siblings, and relatives within the fourth civil degree of affinity or consanguinity of incumbent officials from simultaneously holding similar elective positions.

This means relatives of an official seeking a national position are barred from holding any other national elective position, and relatives of a House member cannot hold the same position in the same legislative district.

Similar restrictions apply at the provincial, city, municipal, and barangay levels, preventing relatives from occupying equivalent positions concurrently within the same local government unit or barangay.

Dy and Marcos stated that the bill is a faithful execution of the 1987 Constitution's prohibition against political dynasties, which has persisted due to the lack of an enabling law.

The bill's authors believe it is a strategic reform for good governance and an assertion that public office is a public trust.