Raul Sagarbarria Roco was a political figure in the Philippines. He was the standard-bearer of Aksyon Demokratiko,which he founded in 1997 as a vehicle for his presidential bids in 1998 and 2016. Philippine general election. 2016 He was a former senator and Secretary of the Department of Education under the presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Aksyon Demokratiko or simply Aksyon is a political party in the Philippines founded by Raul Roco. It was recognized as a national political party in 1998 by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and is considered to be one of the major parties in the Philippines. Former Manila Mayor Isko Moreno currently acts as president of the party.
The University of the East College of Law or UE Law is the law school of the University of the East,a private,non-sectarian university in Manila,Philippines.
Antonio "Sonny" Fuentes Trillanes IV is a former Philippine naval officer who also served as a senator of the Philippines from 2007 to 2019. He is known for his involvement in the Oakwood mutiny of 2003 and the Manila Peninsula siege in 2007 in protest against the Arroyo administration,and he is a vocal critic of the Duterte administration.
Francis Ng Tolentino is a Filipino politician and lawyer. He has served as a Senator since 2019.
The Silliman University College of Law is one of the constituent colleges of Silliman University,a private university in Dumaguete,Philippines. The college was founded in 1935 with Emilio Javier and Felix Gaudiel as pioneers. When the college opened,it offered a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) program,but in 2009 it shifted its offering to Juris Doctor (JD). In 2019,Silliman University College of Law was ranked by the Legal Education Board (LEB) as 8th in the list of 10 Top-Performing Law Schools in the Philippines,with 66.67% or 12 out of 18 of its first time Bar Exam Takers passing the 2018 Bar Examinations.
The 2016 Philippine presidential and vice presidential elections were held on Monday,May 9,2016,as part of the 2016 general election. This was the 16th direct presidential election in the Philippines since 1935 and the fifth sextennial presidential election since 1992.
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.
Melencio Santos Sta. Maria Jr. is a Filipino lawyer,law professor,and presenter on television and radio. He served as the dean of Far Eastern University's law school from 2013 to 2022. He has also been teaching at his alma mater,the Ateneo School of Law,since 1986.
The 2016 presidential campaign of Grace Poe was announced at the Bahay ng Alumni at her alma mater,the University of the Philippines Diliman,Quezon City,on September 16,2015. Grace Poe is a Senator of the Philippines since June 30,2013,the former MTRCB Chairperson and adopted daughter of popular Filipino actor and 2004 presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr.
The 2019 election of members to the Senate of the Philippines was the 33rd election of members to the Senate of the Philippines for a six-year term. It was held on May 13,2019.
Herminio HarryLopez Roque Jr. is a Filipino lawyer,politician,and former law professor. He served as the presidential spokesperson of President Rodrigo Duterte from 2017 to 2018 and from 2020 to 2021. He was the party-list representative of KABAYAN from 2016 to 2017.
Salvador San Buenaventura Panelo is a Filipino lawyer who served as President Rodrigo Duterte's Chief Presidential Legal Counsel (2016–2021) and Presidential Spokesperson (2018–2020). He was also the legal adviser during Duterte's 2016 presidential campaign. As a private lawyer,he has handled cases involving politicians and other controversial personalities. He is a former director of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP).
Efforts to impeach Rodrigo Duterte began in March 2017 when several opposition figures filed an impeachment complaint against Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte for his role in the war on drugs and other issues.
The quo warranto petition against Maria Lourdes Sereno,filed before the Supreme Court of the Philippines,led to the landmark case Republic v. Sereno,which nullified Maria Lourdes Sereno's appointment as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines,finding that she never lawfully held the office due to a lack of integrity for failing to file certain required financial documents. As a result,she was ousted from the Supreme Court as Chief Justice. The Court handed down its ruling on May 11,2018. The case began with a filing before the House of Representatives of an impeachment demand,the accusations in which Solicitor General Jose Calida used as the factual basis for his quo warranto petition.
Disini v. Secretary of Justice,727 Phil. 28 (2014),is a landmark ruling of the Supreme Court of the Philippines handed down on February 18,2014. When the Congress of the Philippines passed the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 the bill was immediately controversial,especially its strict penalties for the new crime of "cyberlibel",an upgraded form of the already existing criminal libel charge found in the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines.
Federalism was one of the main campaign promises of Rodrigo Duterte when he ran for President of the Philippines in 2016. His administration pursued a proposal which would shift the Philippines from being under a unitary form of government to a federal one.
This is a list of candidates in the 2022 Philippine presidential and vice presidential elections.
Joseph Peter "Jopet" Sampedro Sison is a Filipino lawyer,TV presenter,and politician who formerly served as Barangay kagawad for Barangay Pinagkaisahan,Quezon City;City Councilor for 4th district,Assistant General Manager of National Housing Authority or NHA,and President of National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation.
Bar topnotchers in the Philippines are bar examinees who garnered the highest bar exam grades in a particular year. Every year,the Supreme Court releases the bar top ten list. The list contains the names of bar examinees who obtained the ten highest grades. It is possible for more than ten examinees to place in the top ten because numerical ties in the computation of grades usually occur.
