Franklin Drilon
Manny Villar | |
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In office July 12, 2000[1] – November 13, 2000 | |
Preceded by | Blas Ople |
Succeeded by | Aquilino Pimentel Jr. |
President pro tempore of the Senate of the Philippines | |
In office July 25, 2016 – February 27, 2017 | |
Preceded by | Ralph Recto |
Succeeded by | Ralph Recto |
Senate Majority Leader | |
In office January 26, 1998 – July 12, 2000 | |
Preceded by | Francisco Tatad |
Succeeded by | Francisco Tatad |
Senate Minority Leader | |
In office February 28, 2017 – June 30, 2022 | |
Preceded by | Ralph Recto |
Succeeded by | Koko Pimentel |
Senator of the Philippines | |
In office June 30, 2010 – June 30, 2022 | |
In office June 30, 1995 – June 30, 2007 | |
Chair of the Philippine Senate Finance Committee | |
In office July 26, 2010 – July 22, 2013 | |
Preceded by | Edgardo Angara |
Succeeded by | Francis Escudero |
25th Executive Secretary of the Philippines | |
In office July 15, 1991 – June 30, 1992 | |
President | Corazon Aquino |
Preceded by | Oscar Orbos |
Succeeded by | Peter Garuccho |
45th and 47th Secretary of Justice | |
In office July 1, 1992 – February 2, 1995 | |
President | Fidel V. Ramos |
Preceded by | Silvestre Bello III |
Succeeded by | Demetrio G. Demetria |
In office January 4, 1990 – July 14, 1991 | |
President | Corazon Aquino |
Preceded by | Sedfrey A. Ordoñez |
Succeeded by | Silvestre Bello III |
Secretary of Labor and Employment | |
In office January 5, 1987 – January 2, 1990 | |
President | Corazon Aquino |
Preceded by | Augusto A. Sanchez |
Succeeded by | Dionisio C. dela Serna |
Personal details | |
Born | Franklin Magtunao Drilon November 28, 1945 Iloilo City, Iloilo, Philippine Commonwealth |
Nationality | Filipino |
Political party | Liberal (2003–present) |
Other political affiliations | Independent (2000–2003) LAMMP (1998–2000) Lakas–NUCD (1995–1998) UNIDO (1987–1995) |
Spouse(s) | Violeta Calvo (died) Mila Serrano-Genuino |
Children | Eliza Drilon Patrick Drilon |
Residence(s) | Iloilo City, Iloilo San Juan, Metro Manila |
Alma mater | University of the Philippines Diliman (BA, LL.B.) |
Occupation | Lawyer, Politician |
Franklin Magtunao Drilon (Tagalog pronunciation: [ˈdɾilɔn]; born November 28, 1945) is a Filipino lawyer and former politician.[2] He had the longest tenure in the Senate of the Philippines (tied with Lorenzo Tañada and Tito Sotto), having served four non-consecutive terms overall: from 1995 to 2007 and 2010 to 2022. He has served thrice as president of the Senate: in 2000, from 2001 to 2006, and from 2013 to 2016.
Having also served as Senate president pro tempore, Senate Majority Leader, and Senate Minority Leader, he is the only senator to have held all four of the Senate's major leadership positions. A member of the Liberal Party since 2003, he has previously led the party as president, chairman, and vice-chairman.
He also served as
Drilon was born and raised in
Early life
Drilon was born on November 28, 1945, in Iloilo City, Iloilo and is the eldest son of Cesar Drilon Sr. and Primitiva Magtunao. He took his elementary education at the Baluarte Elementary School in Molo, Iloilo City, and graduated in 1957. He finished his secondary education at the U.P. - Iloilo College (now University of the Philippines High School in Iloilo) in 1961.
In college, he went to the
In the same year, he served as an associate lawyer of Sycip, Salazar, Luna, Manalo & Feliciano Law Offices[4] (now SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan). He moved to Angara, Abello, Concepcion, Regala & Cruz Law Offices[5] (ACCRALaw) in 1974, where he still serves as Senior Counsel. ACCRALaw elevated him to partner in 1975, co-managing partner in 1981 and managing partner in 1986.
Drilon was also a Bar Examiner on Labor and Social Legislation in the 1979 and 1984 bar examinations. He also became the vice-president and governor of the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) and the vice-president, Board member and treasurer of the Personnel Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP).
Political career
Drilon served the government and public corporations through the following positions:
- Department of Justice
- Secretary, (1990–1991; 1992–1995)
- Chairman, Board of Pardons and Parole
- Member, Judicial and Bar Council (JBC)
- Member, National Unification Commission
- Chairman, Presidential Committee on Human Rights (PCHR)
- Executive Secretary (1991–1992)
- Chairman, Cabinet Cluster on Political & Security Matters (Cluster "E")
- Member, National Security Council (NSC)
- Vice-chairman, Committee on Privatization (COP)
- Member, Joint Legislative-Executive Foreign Debt Council
- Department of Labor and Employment
- Secretary, (1987–1990)
- Deputy Minister for Industrial Relations, Department of Labor and Employment (1986–1987)
- Member, Presidential Agrarian Reform Council (PARC)
- Commissioner, Social Security Commission
- Chairman, National Labor Relations Commission
- Chairman, Philippine Overseas Employment Administration
- Chairman, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration
- Chairman, Employee Compensation Commission
- Trustee, Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG Fund)
- Board Member, National Housing Authority
- Chairman, National Manpower and Youth Council
- Chairman, National Wages Council
- Chairman, National Maritime Polytechnic
- Vice-chairman, Public Sector Labor-Management Council
- Chairman, Philippine National Bank (PNB)
- Director, Philippine Air Lines (PAL)
- Director, Land Bank of the Philippines
- Board Member, Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation
- Board Member, Population Commission
- Cabinet Officer for Regional Development (CORD) of Region VI
Cory Aquino cabinet
As Justice Secretary, Drilon was instrumental in the prosecution and conviction of Mayor
Senate
In 1992, most of the Aquino
When
When the session resumed in July 2001, Pimentel was replaced by Drilon as Senate President. Pimentel bolted the administration coalition and joined forces with the opposition coalition. In 2003, administration coalition partner Liberal Party, to which President Arroyo's father, Diosdado Macapagal, served as chairman in the 1960s, invited Drilon to be its member. Days later, Drilon was elected chairman of the political party. Before the 2004 elections, Drilon invited Senator Rodolfo Biazon to be a party member. Biazon bolted Raul Roco's Aksyon Demokratiko (AD) only days after he joined that party's convention to become the Liberal Party's new member.
Drilon had close contacts with President
Drilon ran again for the Senate as independent but was under the People Power Coalition senatorial line-up. The lineup was carefully chosen and the first letter of the candidate's surname (except for Roberto Pagdanganan) ended up with the line VOT FOR D CHAMMP. The line became a hit, and it led to the election of most of the coalition's senatorial candidates including Drilon. He again served as Senate President from 2001 to 2006. And from 2006 to the end of his second term as Senator on 2007, Drilon served as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance and worked firmly for the enactment of the new national budget law on 2007.
Drilon was re-elected to the Philippine Senate in 2010 and was then honored for his 15-year service to the senate (1995-2010). He served as the Assistant Majority Leader and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance and led the Senate in enacting the national budget laws on time for 2011, 2012 and 2013. He likewise primarily authored a law that created an oversight body of all government owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) which would check them from incurring financial excesses and as well as ensuring their financial stability and makes them fiscally responsible. On 2012, after Senator Ralph Recto stepped down as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means, Drilon as its vice-chairman took over as its new chairman and worked firmly for the enactment of the Sin Tax Law that would impose higher taxes on the cigarettes and liquors. Drilon proudly called it as "anti-cancer law" for he firmly believes that the law would discourage the people from taking cigarettes so that they will not suffer lung cancer.
During the impeachment trial of then Chief Justice Renato Corona in early 2012, he acted as one of the Senator-Judges and later voted for his conviction and removal from office and disqualification from holding any elective or appointive government office.
Halfway through the Presidency of Benigno Aquino III, Drilon won the majority of votes after being voted as Senate President, following the resignation of former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile. It was predicted long after the resignation of Enrile, that Drilon would have the majority. Enrile was subsequently elected as Minority Leader but was then imprisoned.
Drilon is the acknowledged father of corporate lawyers in the Philippines, having sponsored and wrote the Revised Corporation Code in 2018.[6]
Personal life
Drilon was married to fellow lawyer and ACCRA senior partner Violeta Calvo with whom he had two children, Eliza and Patrick. During his candidacy for a Senate seat in 1995, Drilon often traveled to the US to be with his wife who was then being treated for lung cancer. Mrs. Drilon died of the disease in September 1995, two months after her husband assumed his Senate seat. Two years after, Drilon proposed to close family friend Mila Serrano-Genuino, who was a widow. They married with former Presidents Aquino and Ramos as wedding sponsors.
Drilon has a nephew named Rock who is married to ABS-CBN Broadcast Journalist Cecilia Victoria Oreña, also known as Ces Drilon.
Drilon is a member of the
He received his Doctor of Humanities (Honoris Causa) honorary degree from Central Philippine University.
References
- ^ "Biography of Senate President Ople - Senate of the Philippines". Archived from the original on March 17, 2008. Retrieved April 27, 2008.
- ^ Ramos, Christia Marie (June 30, 2021). "Drilon plans to retire from politics in 2022". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Archived from the original on June 30, 2021. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ "2001-2004 : BAR TOPNOTCHERS - CHAN ROBLES VIRTUAL LAW LIBRARY". www.chanrobles.com.
- ^ "SyCipLaw Home". www.syciplaw.com.
- ^ "Home – ACCRALAW". ACCRALAW.
- ^ "Bicam approves Corporation Code amendments amidst PH drop in Doing Business rank". November 27, 2018.
External links
- Senator Franklin M. Drilon – Senate of the Philippines