Guidelines for the Peoples initiative Campaign

23 August 2014 Peoples Congress, Cebu City

Peoples Initiative (P.I.) is a direct exercise by the people of the sovereign power reserved by the
Philippine Constitution to enact legislation.

The failure if not refusal of the President and the Philippine Congress to abolish and criminalize the
corruption-riddled pork barrel system compels us to embark on the P.I. Thus, we have come up with
a proposed P.I. bill An Act Abolishing the Pork Barrel System which prohibits, criminalizes and
penalizes the appropriation and use of any form of pork barrel.

10% nationwide and 3% per legislative signatures requirements

The immense challenge is to gather the signatures of more than 10% of the total number of
registered voters in the country, with at least 3% in all legislative districts, to be able to put this P.I.
bill to a vote in a referendum called for the purpose.

A simple majority of the votes in a referendum results in the passage of the Act Abolishing the Pork
Barrel System. This is a tall order but we are determined to push and win the P.I. campaign, starting
with a massive education and signature drive.

The Peoples Initiative Against Pork Barrel (PIAP) must mobilize its constituencies to be at the
forefront of this campaign and harness the enthusiasm and voluntarism of the people.

Activities to educate and gather signatures

We will be making use of various activities, including but not limited to:

1. Mobilize our constituents and volunteers to conduct house to-house signature drives in target
populous places.

2. PIAP will call and organize sign-up days nationwide and in particular regions, provinces, cities
and districts from time to time. The P.I. campaign will kick-off this August 23 during a rally in
Cebu City after the holding of the Peoples Congress.

3. Get the cooperation of concerned groups and individuals to set-up signature stations in
churches, schools, malls, public plazas, market places, etc.

4. Collect signatures or set-up signing stations, whatever during big occasions or gatherings of
people, in cooperation with the organizers of such gatherings.

5. Maximize the media and the new media to inform the people, counter anti-P.I. propaganda,
gather widest support and enlist and mobilize as many volunteers.



Steps to secure the 3% and 10% signature requirements

The 234 legislative districts in the country can be characterized by the following: (i) The typical are
those districts comprising several municipalities/component cities; (ii) There are some provinces
and chartered cities with only one legislative district; and (ii) There are big provinces and highly
urbanized chartered cities with two or more districts.

There should always be three copies of the P.I. signature sheets. Voters should sign every sheet
which will go to Comelec and the PIAP respective secretariat headquarters.

1. Ensure that registered voters, in general, sign the PI petition signature sheets/folders prepared
for their congressional district they will sign three signature sheets.
2. Ask voters to sign in signature sheets/folders prepared for their municipality or their
province/city with one legislative district.
3. In big provinces and cities with two or more legislative districts, direct voters to sign signature
sheets/folders prepared for their particular legislative district.

4. Provide signature sheets/folders for big provinces and cities regardless of congressional districts.
Urge voters who do not know or cannot go to their district to sign on the said sheets.

The first three points will enable us and the Comelec to gather and determine if we have already
met the 3% district signature requirement and the fourth guideline will complement the effort to
get the 10% nationwide signature requirement.

To maximize limited resources, we may focus our P.I. campaign to get the 3% and 10% signatures
requirement in one, two, three or four top municipalities and big barangays.

Submit the P.I. signatures collected every month to respective Comelec offices in the province, city
and municipality for their verification and certification.

P.I. petition signature sheet/folder, tarpaulin and flyers

Mass reproduce the P.I. petition signature sheets and folders, with 10 - 20 signature sheets per
folder. To prevent fraud, printing should be done by the Coordinating Committees/Secretariats.

Print (3 ft x 6 ft) tarpaulins that contain the summary of P.I. Act Abolishing Pork Barrel. Display the
tarpaulins in sign up stations, big gatherings, and populated areas.

Translate in local dialect and distribute the flyers and produce posters and streamers encouraging
people to sign up and volunteer for the P.I. campaign.

Monitoring, Reporting and Continuing Signature Drive

Monitor the status of signature drive in your area of responsibility and make timely report to the
PIAP National Coordinating Committee / Joint General Secretariat. Continue collecting signatures
even if the 10-20% target is reached, until the advised by the NCC/NGS to stop. #