2013 Philippine Senatorial Candidates (Part I)

(Reference: Wikipedia)

 

1. SAMSON ALCANTARA

• Filipino lawyer and law professor; national president of the Social Justice Society
• finished law at Manuel L. Quezon University; 3rd placer in the Philippine Bar Examination
• founding chairman and president of ABAKADA-GURO partylist
• no prior elected position

2. EDGARDO SONNY ANGARA

• son of former Senate President and incumbent Senator Edgardo J. Angara (favored RH Bill)
• Chairman of the House Committee on Higher and Technical Education
• finished law at the University of the Philippines; finished Master of Laws at Harvard Law School
• succeeded his aunt as Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Aurora's Lone District for three years
• allotted funds to build classrooms, provide funds for indigent constituents, scholarships to deserving students, Gawad Kalinga villages for Aurora's homeless, computer and internet access to Aurora's public high schools, vocational skills and livelihood training through TESDA
• authored bills that became laws: Magna Carta of Women, Pre-Need Code of the Philippines, Real Estate Investment Trust, Civil Aviation Authority Act, Personal Equity and Retirement Account Act

3. PAULO BENIGNO AQUINO

• cousin of President Noynoy Aquino
• former TV host of Studio 23 and former chairman of the National Youth Commission of the Philippines; joined the special projects group of the ABS-CBN Foundation; currently the President of MicroVentures, Inc.
• Management Engineering graduate of Ateneo de Manila University; took an Executive Education Program on Leadership and Public Policy at Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University
• no prior elected position

4. GRECO ANTONIOUS BELGICA

• a pastor of the Lord's Vineyard Church and President of the Yeshua Change Agents
• advocacies: limited and decentralised form of government, free market, Christian Reconstructionism, and flat tax system for the Philippines (particularly, one kind tax of not more than 10% only on net income on both individual and business profits)
• previously a Councilor of the Sixth District of the City of Manila and Chairman of the Committee on Police, Fire, and Public Safety and the Committee on Economic Development

5. MARIA LOURDES NANCY BINAY-ANGELES

• eldest daughter of Vice President Jejomar Binay; sister of Makati Representative Abigail Binay and Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay, Jr.
• no prior elected position