Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III,also known as Noynoy Aquino and colloquially as PNoy,was a Filipino politician who served as the 15th president of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016. Before being elected president,Aquino was a member of the House of Representatives and Senate from 1998 to 2010,and also served as a deputy speaker of the House of Representatives from 2004 to 2006.
The Liberal Party,abbreviated as the LP,is a liberal-democratic political party in the Philippines.
Alberto Gatmaitan Rómulo is a Filipino politician and diplomat. He served in the Philippine in various capacities as Executive Secretary,Finance Secretary,Foreign Affairs Secretary,and Budget Secretary. His most recent office is his leadership of the Department of Foreign Affairs before and during the early period of the administration of President Benigno Aquino III.
Manuel "Mar" Araneta Roxas II is a Filipino politician who served as a Senator of the Philippines. He is the grandson of former Philippine President Manuel Roxas. He served in the Cabinet of the Philippines as Secretary of the Interior and Local Government from 2012 to 2015. Previously,he was the Secretary of Trade and Industry from 2000 to 2003 and Secretary of Transportation and Communications from 2011 to 2012. He is the son of former Senator Gerry Roxas.
The presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo,also known as the Arroyo administration,spanned nine years from January 20,2001,to June 30,2010. She served the remainder of her predecessor Joseph Estrada's term after he was deposed,and she was elected to a full second term in 2004 which ended pursuant to the provisions of the 1987 Constitution in 2010.
The presidential transition of Benigno Aquino III began when he won the 2010 Philippine presidential election. On June 9,2010,at the Batasang Pambansa Complex,in Quezon City,the Congress of the Philippines proclaimed Aquino as the president-elect of the Philippines,following the 2010 election with 15,208,678 votes,while Jejomar Binay,the former mayor of Makati,was proclaimed as the vice president-elect of the Philippines with 14,645,574 votes,defeating runner-up for the vice presidency Mar Roxas,the standard-bearer of the Liberal Party for vice president.
The presidency of Benigno Aquino III began on June 30,2010,when he became the fifteenth president of the Philippines,succeeding Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Aquino is the third-youngest person to be elected president,and the fourth-youngest president after Emilio Aguinaldo,Ramon Magsaysay and Ferdinand Marcos.
Corazon Victoria "Dinky" Nerves Juliano-Soliman was a Filipina politician,activist and social worker who served as Secretary of Social Welfare and Development twice,under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from 2001 to 2005,and President Benigno Aquino III from 2010 to 2016.
Voltaire Tuvera Gazmin is a retired Filipino soldier who was the 35th Secretary of the Department of National Defense of the Philippines. Gazmin assumed office on 1 July 2010,after President Benigno S. Aquino III had issued the former's appointment the day before.
Florencio "Butch" Barsana Abad is a Filipino lawyer and politician. Having held many cabinet-level ranks in the past,he was appointed by President Benigno Aquino III as Secretary of the Philippine Department of Budget and Management. Abad held various cabinet-level positions in the past,particularly as Secretary of the Department of Education and Secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform.
Jose de Jesus is a former Philippine Secretary of the Department of Transportation and Communications. On June 29,2010,President Benigno Aquino III picked him as his Secretary of Transportation and Communications.
The 2007 election of members to the Senate of the Philippines was the 29th election to the Senate of the Philippines. It was held on Monday,May 14,2007,to elect 12 of the 24 seats in the Senate. Together with those elected in 2004,they will comprise the 14th Congress via plurality-at-large voting. The senators elected in 2004 will serve until June 30,2010,while the senators elected in this election will serve up to June 30,2013. The elections to the House of Representatives as well as local elections occurred on the same date. The Philippines uses plurality-at-large voting for seats in the Senate.
Ramon Reyes Jimenez Jr. sometimes known as Monet or Mon Jimenez,was a Filipino advertising executive who previously served in the Cabinet of the Philippines as Secretary of Tourism from 2011 to 2016 during the presidency of Benigno Aquino III. He was appointed as the country's tourism chief following the resignation of Alberto Lim,and during his six-year tenure,tourist arrivals and revenues had almost doubled,and the Philippines improved 20 places in a tourism competitive index among nations. Jimenez assisted with the advertising campaign of Aquino earlier.
The term "Hyatt 10" refers to a group of seven secretaries of the Cabinet and three heads of government agencies in the Philippines who resigned their posts on July 8,2005,as a result of the Hello Garci scandal,which allegedly implicated then-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in rigging the 2004 general election in her favor.
Francis H. Jardeleza is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He served as Solicitor General of the Philippines from 2012 to 2014,and was appointed by President Benigno Aquino III to the High Court on August 19,2014.
Pilipinas Kay Ganda was a short-lived advertising campaign made by the Department of Tourism to promote tourism in the Philippines. Launched in 2010,it replaced the WOW Philippines campaign that was launched in 2002.
The Presidential Assistant for Food Security and Agricultural Modernization (PAFSAM) is a Cabinet-level position under the Office of the President of the Philippines. It was created on May 5,2014 by President Benigno Aquino III.
Alfredo Benjamin Sabater Caguioa is a Filipino lawyer who is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Prior to his appointment as Associate Justice,he served as acting Secretary of the Department of Justice and Chief Presidential Legal Counsel under the presidency of Benigno Aquino III.
Vitaliano "Vit" Napeñas Aguirre II is a Filipino lawyer serving as a commissioner of the National Police Commission since January 11,2021. He previously served as Secretary of Justice under President Rodrigo Duterte from 2016 until his resignation in 2018,and vice president and chief legal counsel of Clark Development Corporation under former President Benigno Aquino III. He gained wide public attention in 2012 during the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona when he was cited for contempt after he was caught covering his ears while being lectured by the late Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago.
