Tarlac,officially the Province of Tarlac,is a landlocked province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the city of Tarlac. It is bounded on the north by the province of Pangasinan,Nueva Ecija on the east,Zambales on the west,and Pampanga in the south. The province comprises three congressional districts and is subdivided into 17 municipalities and one city,Tarlac City,which is the provincial capital.
Concepcion,officially the Municipality of Concepcion,is a 1st class municipality in the province of Tarlac,Philippines. According to the 2020 census,it has a population of 169,953 people.
Renato "Rene" Salud de Villa is a Filipino former police and military officer and government official. He served as Chief of Philippine Constabulary,Director-General of the Integrated National Police,and Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. He then served as Secretary of National Defense under presidents Corazon Aquino and Fidel V. Ramos. He founded Partido para sa Demokratikong Reporma for his unsuccessful presidential bid in 1998. He then briefly served as Executive Secretary under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Franklin Magtunao Drilon is a Filipino lawyer and former politician. He had the longest tenure in the Senate of the Philippines,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.
The Department of Budget and Management is an executive body under the Office of the President of the Philippines. It is responsible for the sound and efficient use of government resources for national development and also as an instrument for the meeting of national socio-economic and political development goals.
Philip Ella Juico is a Filipino sports official. He is the chairman emeritus of the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (PATAFA),the NSA for athletics in the Philippines. He was president of PATAFA from 2015 to 2022.
Emmanuel Tiu Santos,also known as Noli Santos,is a lawyer,management practitioner,and educator in the Philippines. He was a delegate to the 1971 Constitutional Convention which drafted the 1973 Philippine Constitution. He is currently the president of the Philippine British Society (PBS).
Jesus P. Estanislao is a Filipino economist best known for having been the 6th Socio-economic Planning Secretary and concurrent Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) from 1989-1990,and Secretary of Finance of the Philippines from 1990-1992,during the government of President Corazon Aquino. He presently heads two private institutes committed to governance reforms:the Institute of Corporate Directors,and the Institute for Solidarity in Asia. He also chairs the President's Governance Advisory Council,which advises the Philippine President on governance issues.
The University of the Philippines School of Economics is a degree-granting unit of the University of the Philippines Diliman (U.P.),where it occupies the buildings of the Philippine Center for Economic Development (PCED). The school offers two Bachelor of Science degrees,two master's degrees and the Ph.D. in economics.
José "Peping" Sumulong Cojuangco Jr. is a Filipino politician,sports administrator,and businessman. He served as the 9th president of the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) from 2004 to 2018. He previously served as the Representative of Tarlac's 1st district from 1961 to 1969 and 1987 to 1998. He began his political career in Paniqui,Tarlac where he served as councilor,vice mayor,and then mayor. A member of the Cojuangco political dynasty,President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino was his sister and President Benigno Aquino III was his nephew.
Gilberto Eduardo Gerardo Cojuangco Teodoro Jr.,nicknamed Gilbert or Gibo,is a Filipino lawyer,politician and business executive who is the incumbent Secretary of National Defense under the Marcos Jr. administration since 2023. He previously served in the same post from 2007 to 2009 under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. He was the nominee of Arroyo's Lakas–Kampi in the 2010 presidential election,which he lost to his second cousin,Noynoy Aquino.
Catalino Tiacho Macaraig Jr. was a Filipino politician who was the longest-serving Executive Secretary of President Corazon C. Aquino.
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.
Ramón Jesús Palmiano Paje is a Filipino civil servant. He was the 19th secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) under the administration of President Benigno Aquino III. Prior to his appointment,he was DENR Undersecretary for Field Operations and Executive Director of the Minerals Development Council under the Office of the President in concurrent capacity.
Virgilio "Gil" R. de los Reyes is a Filipino lawyer,educator and government administrator. He served as Secretary of Agrarian Reform under the administration of President Benigno Aquino III. Prior to assuming his post,he was Vice Dean of the De La Salle University College of Law,teaching constitutional law.
Amando Maglalang Tetangco Jr. is a Filipino banker,who served as the third Governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). He was the first BSP governor to serve two terms,having been first appointed to the office by Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in July 3,2005,and reappointed in July 31,2011 by President Benigno Aquino III to serve another six-year term.
The order of precedence in the Philippines is the protocol used in ranking government officials and other personages in the Philippines. Purely ceremonial in nature,it has no legal standing,and does not reflect the presidential line of succession nor the equal status of the three branches of government established in the 1987 Constitution.
Herminio "Sonny" B. Coloma Jr. is a Filipino businessman and educator. He was a member of the Philippine Cabinet and Secretary of Presidential Communications Office during the presidency of Benigno S. Aquino III. He is also a professor at the Asian Institute of Management.
John Rualo Castriciones,also known by the nickname Bro. John,is a Filipino lawyer and writer who served as the Secretary of Agrarian Reform under the Duterte administration from 2017 to 2021. He was formerly Undersecretary for Operations of the Department of the Interior and Local Government from 2016 to 2017. A member of the Philippine Military Academy "Maharlika" class of 1984,Castriciones also served in various capacities under two previous administrations and as a law school professor at his alma mater Arellano University. His appointment to the Agrarian Reform portfolio was approved by the Commission on Appointments on May 29,2018,after being bypassed earlier by the commission on March 14,2018,and reappointed by Duterte on March 22,2018. Castriciones founded the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas together with the Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte-National Executive Coordinating Committee (MRRD-NECC).
Jeci Aquino Lapus was a Filipino engineer and politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines representing Tarlac's 3rd congressional district from 2007 to 2013. Prior to his death,he was the acting administrator of the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) since 2017.
