Gregorio "Gringo" Ballesteros Honasan II,is a Filipino politician and a cashiered Philippine Army officer who led unsuccessful coups d'état against President Corazon Aquino. He played a key role in the 1986 EDSA Revolution that toppled President Ferdinand Marcos.
Liza Maza is a Filipina activist who was the lead convenor of the National Anti-Poverty Commission under the Duterte administration from August 2016 until her resignation in August 2018. She was a member of the Philippine House of Representatives,representing the Gabriela Women's Party.
The National Youth Commission,also known as the NYC,is a government agency in the Philippines that specifically addresses issues surrounding the Filipino youth. It was founded on June 30,1995,via Republic Act 8044 or the "Youth in Nation-Building Act of 1995".
Luzviminda "Luz" Calolot-Ilagan is a Filipina development worker and former congresswoman. She represented the Gabriela Women's Partylist in the 14th Congress of the Philippines from 2007 to 2016.
Datu Zamzamin Lumenda Ampatuan is a career bureaucrat in the Philippines.
The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) is a government agency of the Republic of the Philippines. It coordinates poverty reduction programs by national and local governments and ensures that marginalized sectors participate in government decision-making processes.
The 2016 presidential campaign of Rodrigo Duterte was announced on November 21,2015. Rodrigo Duterte,who was then serving as Mayor of Davao City,had refused to run and turned down other presidential and vice-presidential aspirants' offers to be his running mate,including that of Jejomar Binay,Miriam Defensor-Santiago and Bongbong Marcos. He was eventually elected President of the Philippines. Duterte's positions resonated with older,working class Filipinos. This was particularly true regarding his promise to eliminate the wide-scale drug menace of the country,his record of zero criminal tolerance in Davao City,which he served for more than 22 years,as well as his stronger position against corruption. Duterte's campaign reached out to Filipinos who had been suffering poverty,were strongly nationalistic,and had growing distrust of Western institutions as well as the political establishment in Manila that were supposedly controlled by the elites and oligarchs. In his campaign,Duterte accused political elites of not doing much to solve problems in a move that was described as populist.
The political positions of Rodrigo Duterte,the 16th President of the Philippines,have been difficult to define coherently into what some analysts have attempted to package as "Dutertism" due to numerous policy shifts during his presidency.
The 17th Congress of the Philippines,composed of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives,met from July 25,2016,until June 4,2019,during the first three years of Rodrigo Duterte's presidency. The convening of the 17th Congress followed the 2016 general elections,which replaced half of the Senate membership and the entire membership of the House of Representatives.
The presidential transition of Rodrigo Duterte started when then-Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippine presidential election on May 9,2016. Duterte topped the official count by the Congress of the Philippines on May 27,2016,with 16,601,997 votes,6.6 million more than his closest rival. The joint bicameral Congress proclaimed Duterte as the President-elect and Leni Robredo as the Vice President-elect on May 30,2016.
Regina Paz "Gina" La'o Lopez was a Filipino environmentalist and philanthropist who served as Secretary of the Philippines' Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in an ad interim basis under the Duterte administration. She was previously the Chairperson of the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission under two consecutive administrations. Lopez was also a yoga missionary and a pioneer for corporate social responsibility.
Jose Callangan Calida is a Filipino lawyer. He previously served as Undersecretary of Justice under the Arroyo administration,as executive director of the Dangerous Drugs Board,as Solicitor General of the Philippines under the Duterte administration,and as the Chairman of Commission on Audit (COA) under the administration of President Bongbong Marcos.
The 2019 Philippine House of Representatives elections were the 35th lower house elections in the Philippines. They were held on May 13,2019,to elect members to the House of Representatives.
Partido Federal ng Pilipinas is a national political party in the Philippines. It is chaired by Bongbong Marcos,president of the Philippines who won by a landslide in the 2022 election. During the run-up to the 2022 general election,the UniTeam Alliance was formed by the PFP,Lakas–CMD,HNP,and PMP,with guest candidates from other parties.
Yshmael "Mang" Ismail Sali is a Filipino politician from the province of Tawi-Tawi,Philippines. He currently serves as Governor of the province. He was first elected as Governor in 2019.
Claire Dennis S. Mapa,Ph.D. is a Filipino economist and statistician. He is the National Statistician and Civil Registrar General (NSCRG) of the Philippine Statistics Authority with a rank of Undersecretary as appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte. He succeeds Lisa Grace Bersales whose tenure ended on 22 April 2019.
Rodolfo "Rudy" Dia Robles is a Filipino lawyer and diplomat who was the Ambassador of the Philippines to Canada from 2020 to 2022 He was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte on February 21,2020 and was confirmed by the Commission on Appointments on March 11. He was previously nominated to be the Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations and was a member of Duterte's Consultative Committee to review the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines.
Wencelito Tan Andanar was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as officer-in-charge (OIC) governor of Surigao del Norte from 1986 to 1988. He also served as chairman of the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) from 1982 to 1992,presidential assistant during the administration of Cory Aquino and an undersecretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government from 2001 to 2007. His last government position was as special envoy of President Rodrigo Duterte to Malaysia from 2018 until his death in 2021.
This is a list of candidates in the 2022 Philippine presidential and vice presidential elections.
