About Marino Partylist
MARINO Samahan ng Seaman, Inc. is a duly SEC-registered organization and was established on February 14, 2014 by seafarers, their families and dependents, as well as advocates of maritime industry.
The group is guided by its five-point priority: cadet scholarships, family centers, seafarers’ training, free legal advice, and decentralization. In particular, the group advocates for the following:
- Make linkages with companies and the government in order to provide scholarships to many generations of seafarers;
- Extend assistance and guidance to seafarer’s families, dependents and stakeholders in the maritime industry (e.g. establishing family centers for their families left in the country);
- Provide trainings for the improvement of the skills of the seafarers in the whole country;
- Advocate the seafarers’ rights, by providing them with free legal services; and
- Decentralization of processing of licenses and accessibility to trainings (e.g. establishing centers in Visayas and Mindanao)
In the 2019 midterm elections, MARINO Party-list fielded candidates to forward the above-mentioned advocacies. Garnering 677,448 votes, the Party-list won two seats, with Cong. Sandro L. Gonzalez and Cong. Macnell Lusotan sitting as its official representatives in the 18th Congress.
