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Deputy Speaker Bernadette Herrera (File photo) MANILA - A leader of the House of Representatives on Thursday stressed the need to amend the party-list system to ensure that its purpose of giving greater representation to the marginalized and disadvantaged is achieved. In a media forum, Deputy Speaker Bernadette Herrera said the term "marginalized" should be properly defined to make sure that the marginalized sectors or groups, including labor, peasant, urban poor, indigenous cultural communities, women, youth, and other such sectors are given representation in Congress as originally envisioned under the 1987 Constitution. "There's really a need to amend the party-list law. You have to properly define what marginalized means," Herrera said. "My stand is that yung sector na hindi naririnig, yung sector na hindi napupush ang agenda nila, yun ang kinakailangan irepresent sa Congress (the sector that has no voice to push its agenda should be represented in Congr