JAMBY MADRIGAL PROFILE!

Born in 26 April 1958 Maria Ana Consuelo Abad Santos Madrigal Valade kung siya ay tawagin . She is currently a Senator. She was elected Senator in the 2004 election.
Jamby Madrigal was born on 26 April 1958 in Manila to Antonio and Amanda Madrigal. She is the granddaughter of the former Supreme Court Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos of San Fernando, Pampanga. Her granduncle – pre-Commonwealth Assemblyman Pedro Abad Santos was the father and founder of the Socialist Party of the Philippines. The Abad Santos brothers were rich landowners who gave up their land to live with the tenants in their fight for social justice.

Her paternal grandfather was former Senator Vicente Madrigal of Ligao, Albay, a businessman, an industrialist, and one of the Philippine Republic’s elected senator in 1949. Her aunt, former Senator Pacita Madrigal-Gonzales was a senator during the Quezon and Magsaysay administrations and was the first administrator of the Social Welfare Administration, that was later named as Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
Her foundations strive to uplift popular awareness of the plight of street children, and to raise funds for various centers that award school scholarships to the children of the poor. The Books-for-the-Barangay Foundation Inc. (BBFI) is the lead partner of U.S-based “Books for the Barrios” organization, which has shipped more than P2.5 billion worth of books for Philippine public elementary and high schools. The Abad Santos Madrigal Foundation (ASMF) Inc. works to empower women and children through relevant and accessible livelihood programs. Its flagship project, the Basic Reflexology Training Program (BRTP) has trained more than 5,000 reflexology therapists nationwide. Program graduates are accredited by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA).
She is currently the Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Youth, Women and Family Relations, Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, Committee on Peace, Unification and Reconciliation, as well as the Committee on Cultural Communities. She has filed bills that are responsive to the needs of women and the youth in the areas of education, juvenile justice, gender equality, empowerment, anti-trafficking and anti- pornography. She has also authored bills on the protection of the indigenous peoples and their ancestral domain as well as the protection and conservation of the environment.

In addition, she also heads other Senate oversight committees such as the Congressional Oversight Committee on the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act, Congressional Oversight Committee on the Clean Water Act, Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on the Clean Air Act, and the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on the Chain Saw Act.

Moreover, she has filed bills to advance nationalist economics, such as the repeal of the Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act of 1998, as well as measures seeking to place LPG under price control and for the recovery of PETRON and Malampaya.

Concerned about the protection of the Philippines' patrimony, she recently filed a bill repealing RA 7942, the "Mining Act of 1995" and a bill for the imposition of a total log ban. Both bills aim to protect the last remaining natural resources from wholesale plunder.

In an opposition protest on 14 October 2005, she was one of the political leaders who were subjected to the Manila Police water cannons while attending an indignation rally that was in response to the policies mandated by the Arroyo administration like Executive Order (EO) 464.

In addition in 31 July 2009 she announced to run as the president of the philippine republic!

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JOSEPH ESTRADA PROFILE!

Former President Estrada was born on April 19, 1937 in Tondo, Manila to Emilio Ejercito, Sr., a former Chief Sanitary Engineer of Manila, and Maria Marcelo. He has two brothers, Antonio Ejercito (1932-2005) and Emilio Ejercito, Jr. (1928-1999). He studied at the Ateneo de Manila University but was expelled for unbecoming conduct. He enrolled at the Mapua Institute of Technology but dropped out before finishing college to pursue a career in acting.
Jose Marcelo Ejercito, better known by his screen name Joseph Ejercito Estrada or Erap, is an accomplished movie actor and producer and was the 13th President of the Philippines serving from January 20, 1997 to January 20, 2001. On September 12, 2007, he was convicted of plunder.

Dropping out of college because of involvement in a street gang, as well as the film industry, displeased his family that they forbade him from using the family name Ejercito. He used the name " Joseph Estrada" instead. As an actor he acquired the nickname "Erap" (from the reversed spelling of pare, Filipino slang for or 'buddy'). He starred in over a hundred movies and produced more than half of them. He was the first FAMAS Hall of Fame awardee for Best Actor in 1981.

In 1968, Estrada ran for mayor of the municipality of San Juan, but without any background in politics, he lost to Dr. Braulio Sto. Domingo. His camp filed an electoral protest against Sto. Domingo and was favored by the court. Estrada was proclaimed mayor of San Juan in the following year. This was the start of his sixteen-year tenure as San Juan mayor.

When Corazon Aquino assumed the presidency in 1986, all local government officials suspected of malfeasance and anomalies, Estrada included, were removed from office. He ran for senate the following year won a seat under the Grand Alliance for Democracy (GAD) party.
In 1997, after four years as the country's second-in-command, Estrada finally decided to run for president. His political strategists recognized that a large fraction of the Philippines' voting population was the “masa” and launched a campaign specifically designed to woo them. Finding a leader they could identify with, the masa rallied behind Estrada and his slogan "Erap para sa Mahirap" (Erap for the poor). After the elections, Edgardo Angara was defeated by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for the vice presidency, Estrada won by landslide. Estrada was inaugurated on June 30,1998 in the historical town of Malolos, Bulacan. Estrada's presidency was soon marred by plunder and corruption charges. In October 2000, Ilocos Sur governor Luis "Chavit" Singson, a close friend of Estrada, alleged that he had personally given the President P400 million as payoff from jueteng – a grassroots-based numbers game, as well as P180 million from the government price subsidy for the tobacco farmers' marketing cooperative. Singson's allegation caused uproar across the nation, which culminated in the House of Representatives' filing of an impeachment case against Estrada on November 13, 2000. The impeachment suit was brought to the Senate and an impeachment court was formed, with Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr. as presiding officer. Estrada, pleading “not guilty”, called for two of the country's leading lawyers to his side, former chief justice Andres Narvasa and Estelito Mendoza.

This was the first time Filipinos would witness, through radio and television, an elected president stand in trial and face possible impeachment. During the trial, the prosecution presented witnesses and evidence to the impeachment court proving Estrada's involvement in jueteng. The existence of secret bank accounts which he allegedly uses for receiving payoffs was also brought affront. Singson, after being offered immunity by anti-Estrada lawmakers, stood as witness against the president during the trial and said that he and the President were partners in-charge of the country-wide jueteng operations. Though his credibility has been questioned several times, the depth of Singson's personal knowledge on questionable activities of the President, drawing from reactions of the citizens, weighed more.

The impeachment trial took an unexpected turn when, on January 16, 2001, the court, whose majority were allies of Estrada, voted not to open a controversial envelope. This envelope was rumored to to contain incriminating evidence against the president and its opening would have decided the Estrada's fate right there. The prosecution panel and the officials from the opposition walked out of the court in protest of the vote. Senator Aquilino Pimentel also resigned as Senate President to signify his objection to the turnout of the proceedings. The events fueled a three-day street protest.

Gathered at the historic EDSA Shrine, the same site of the 1986 revolution that overthrew Ferdinand Marcos, hundreds of Filipinos staged rallies asking for Estrada's resignation. Students, professionals, and various civic groups took part in what came to be known as EDSA II. The number of protesters grew from hundreds to thousands in a matter of days. The rallies even reached provinces in the Visayas and Mindanao. On January 19, 2001, AFP chief Angelo Reyes joined the assembly at EDSA announcing that the 113,000-strong Armed Forces of the Philippines is withdrawing support from Estrada.

The next day, following Supreme Court's declaration of vacancy of the presidential seat, the Chief Justice swore in the constitutional successor, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, as the acting President of the Philippines. In the 2000 Philippine elections, though eligible to run for a second term, Estrada backed him then Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (after initially naming Teofisto Guingona, her former senator, as her candidate), Estrada's Vice-president whose defection to the Arroyo party proved crucial to the popular revolution. This decision was unpopular among many of her core supporters, including the Roman Catholic Church. Arroyo narrowly won with just 23.58 percent of the vote, and succeeded Estrada as president on January 20, 2001.

Estrada is married to psychiatrist-turned-senator Luisa "Loi" P. Ejercito-Estrada and has three children with her: Jinggoy (a Philippine senator), Jacqueline, and Jude. His child out of wedlock, JV Ejercito (from socialite Guia Gomez), also entered politics and is the present mayor of the San Juan president estrada is a prisoner for a several years.

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