This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
President of the Senate of the Philippines | |
---|---|
Pangulo ng Mataas na Kapulungan ng Pilipinas | |
Style | Mr. President (informal; within the Senate) The Honorable (formal) His Excellency (formal, diplomatic) |
Member of | Senate of the Philippines National Security Council Commission on Appointments |
Reports to | Senate of the Philippines |
Seat | GSIS Building, Pasay City |
Appointer | The Senate |
Term length | At the Senate's pleasure |
Inaugural holder | Manuel L. Quezon |
Formation | October 16, 1916 |
Succession | Second |
Website | Senate |
Philippinesportal |
The president of the Senate of the Philippines (Filipino : Pangulo ng Mataas na Kapulungan ng Pilipinas) or (Pangulo ng Senado ng Pilipinas) is the presiding officer and the highest-ranking official of the Senate of the Philippines, and third highest and most powerful official in the government of the Philippines. They are elected by the entire body to be their leader. The Senate president is second in the line of succession to the presidency, behind only the vice president and ahead of the speaker of the House of Representatives.
The current Senate president is Juan Miguel Zubiri. He was elected on July 25, 2022, the first day of the 19th Congress.
The Senate president is elected by the majority of the members of the Senate from among themselves; Since there are 24 senators, 13 votes are needed to win the Senate presidency, including any vacant seats or senators not attending the session. Although Senate presidents are elected at the start of each Congress, there had been numerous instances of Senate coups in which a sitting Senate president is unseated in the middle of session. Term-sharing agreements among senators who are both eyeing the position of the Senate president also played a role in changing the leadership of the Senate, but in a smooth manner, the peaceful transition of power and this was done two times in 1999 and in 2006.
Unlike most Senate presidents that are the symbolic presiding officers of the upper house, the Senate president of the Philippines wields considerate power by influencing the legislative agenda and has the ability to vote not just in order to break ties, although the Senate president is traditionally the last senator to vote. A tied vote, therefore, means that the motion is lost, and that the Senate president cannot cast a tie-breaking vote since that would mean that the presiding officer would have had voted twice.
According to the Rule 3 of the Rules of the Senate, the Senate president has the powers and duties to:
The Senate president is also the ex officio chairman of the Commission on Appointments, a constitutional body within the Congress that has the sole power to confirm all appointments made by the president of the Philippines. Under Section 2 of Chapter 2 of the Rules of the Commission on Appointments, the powers and duties of the Senate president as its ex-officio chairman are as follows:
And if other impeachable officers other than the president such as the ombudsman is on an impeachment trial, the Senate president is the presiding officer and shall be the last to vote on the judgment on such cases according to the Senate Rules of Procedure in Impeachment Trials the Senate adopted on March 23, 2011.
In the Senate, he supervises the committees and attended its hearings and meetings if necessary and such committee reports are being submitted to his/her office.
The Senate was created on 1916 with the abolition of the Philippine Commission as the upper house with the Philippine Assembly as the lower house. The Senate and the House of Representatives comprised the Philippine Legislature (PL). Representation was by senatorial district; Manuel L. Quezon was elected senator from the now-defunct 5th legislative district.
All senators from 1941 onwards were elected at-large, with the whole Philippines as one constituency.
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Party | Legislature | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Took office | Left office | ||||||
1 | Manuel L. Quezon [1] Member for the 5th Senatorial District (1878–1944) | August 29 1916 | November 15 1935 | Nacionalista | 4th Legislature | ||
5th Legislature | |||||||
Nacionalista Colectivista | 6th Legislature | ||||||
Nacionalista | 7th Legislature | ||||||
8th Legislature | |||||||
9th Legislature | |||||||
Nacionalista Democratico | 10th Legislature | ||||||
| |||||||
2 | Manuel Roxas [3] (1892–1948) | July 9 1945 | May 28 1946 | Liberal | 1st Commonwealth Congress | ||
3 | José Avelino (1890–1986) | May 28 1946 | February 21 1949 | Liberal | 2nd Commonwealth Congress | ||
1st Congress | |||||||
4 | Mariano Jesús Cuenco (1888–1964) | February 21 1949 | December 30 1951 | Liberal | |||
2nd Congress | |||||||
5 | Quintín Paredes (1884–1973) | March 5 1952 | April 17 1952 | Liberal | |||
6 | Camilo Osías (1889–1976) | April 17 1952 | April 30 1952 | Nacionalista | |||
7 | Eulogio A. Rodriguez Sr. (1883–1964) | April 30 1952 | April 17 1953 | Nacionalista | |||
(6) | Camilo Osías (1889–1976) | April 17 1953 | May 20 1953 | Nacionalista | |||
8 | José Zulueta (1889–1972) | May 20 1953 | November 30 1953 | Liberal | |||
(7) | Eulogio A. Rodriguez Sr. (1883–1964) | November 30 1953 | April 5 1963 | Nacionalista | |||
3rd Congress | |||||||
4th Congress | |||||||
5th Congress | |||||||
9 | Ferdinand Marcos (1917–1989) | April 5 1963 | December 30 1965 | Liberal (until 1965) | |||
Nacionalista (from 1965) | |||||||
10 | Arturo M. Tolentino (1910–2004) | January 17 1966 | January 26 1967 | Nacionalista | 6th Congress | ||
11 | Gil Puyat (1907–1980) | January 26 1967 | September 23 1972 | Nacionalista | |||
7th Congress | |||||||
| |||||||
12 | Jovito R. Salonga (1920–2016) | July 27 1987 | January 18 1992 | Liberal | 8th Congress | ||
13li | Neptali Gonzales (1923–2001) | January 18 1992 | January 18 1993 | LDP | |||
9th Congress | |||||||
14 | Edgardo Angara (1934–2018) | January 18 1993 | August 28 1995 | LDP | |||
10th Congress | |||||||
(13) | Neptali Gonzales (1923–2001) | August 29 1995 | October 10 1995 | LDP | |||
15 | Ernesto Maceda (1935–2016) | October 10 1995 | January 26 1998 | NPC | |||
(13) | Neptali Gonzales (1923–2001) | January 26 1998 | June 30 1998 | LDP | |||
16 | Marcelo Fernan (1927–1999) | July 27 1998 | June 28 1999 | LDP | 11th Congress | ||
17 | Blas Ople (1927–2003) | June 28 1999 | July 12 2000 | LAMMP | |||
18 | Franklin Drilon (born 1945) | July 12 2000 | November 13 2000 | Independent | |||
19 | Aquilino Pimentel Jr. (1933–2019) | November 13 2000 | June 30 2001 | PDP–Laban | |||
(18) | Franklin Drilon (born 1945) | July 23 2001 | July 24 2006 | Independent (until 2003) | 12th Congress | ||
Liberal (from 2003) | |||||||
13th Congress | |||||||
20 | Manny Villar (born 1949) | July 24 2006 | November 17 2008 | Nacionalista | |||
14th Congress | |||||||
21 | Juan Ponce Enrile (born 1924) | November 17 2008 | June 5 2013 | PMP | |||
15th Congress | |||||||
– | Jinggoy Estrada (born 1963) Acting | June 5 2013 | July 22 2013 | PMP | |||
(18) | Franklin Drilon (born 1945) | July 22 2013 | June 30 2016 | Liberal | 16th Congress | ||
22 | Koko Pimentel (born 1964) | July 25 2016 | May 21 2018 | PDP–Laban | 17th Congress | ||
23 | Tito Sotto (born 1948) | May 21 2018 | June 30 2022 | NPC | |||
18th Congress | |||||||
24 | Migz Zubiri (born 1969) | July 25 2022 | Incumbent | Independent | 19th Congress |
The president of Republic of the Philippines is the head of state, head of government and chief executive of the Philippines. The president leads the executive branch of the Philippine government and is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
The Congress of the Philippines is the legislature of the national government of the Philippines. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, although colloquially the term "Congress" commonly refers to just the latter, and an upper body, the Senate. The House of Representatives meets in the Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City while the Senate meets in the GSIS Building in Pasay.
The House of Representatives of the Philippines is the lower house of Congress, the bicameral legislature of the Philippines, with the Senate of the Philippines as the upper house. The lower house is usually called Congress, although the term collectively refers to both houses.
The Senate of the Philippines is the upper house of Congress, the bicameral legislature of the Philippines with the House of Representatives as the lower house. The Senate is composed of 24 senators who are elected at-large under plurality-at-large voting.
The Tennessee Senate is the upper house of the U.S. state of Tennessee's state legislature, which is known formally as the Tennessee General Assembly.
The Commission on Appointments is a constitutional body which confirms or rejects certain political appointments made by the President of the Philippines. The current commission was created by the 1987 Constitution.
The vice president of Republic of the Philippines is the second-highest official in the executive branch of the Philippine government and is the first in the presidential line of succession. The vice president is directly elected by the citizens of the Philippines and is one of only two nationally elected executive officials, the other being the president.
The government of the Philippines has three interdependent branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The Philippines is governed as a unitary state under a presidential representative and democratic constitutional republic in which the president functions as both the head of state and the head of government of the country within a pluriform multi-party system.
The chief justice of the Philippines presides over the Supreme Court and is the highest judicial officer of the government of the Philippines. As of April 5, 2021, the position is currently held by Alexander Gesmundo, who was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte following the early retirement of his predecessor, Diosdado Peralta, in March 2021.
The Legislature of the State of Oklahoma is the state legislative branch of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The Oklahoma House of Representatives and Oklahoma Senate are the two houses that make up the bicameral state legislature. There are 101 state representatives, each serving a two-year term, and 48 state senators, who serve four-year terms that are staggered so only half of the Oklahoma Senate districts are eligible in each election cycle. Legislators are elected directly by the people from single member districts of equal population. The Oklahoma Legislature meets annually in the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City.
Impeachment in the Philippines is an expressed power of the Congress of the Philippines to formally charge a serving government official with an impeachable offense. After being impeached by the House of Representatives, the official is then tried in the Senate. If convicted, the official is either removed from office or censured.
The 9th Congress of the Philippines, composed of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives, met from July 27, 1992, until June 9, 1995, during the first three years of Fidel Ramos's presidency. The convening of the 9th Congress follows the 1992 national elections, where, under the transitory provisions of the Constitution, the first 12 senators who garnered the highest votes would have a six-year term while the next 12 senators would have a three-year term and the entire membership of the House of Representatives was replaced.
The 11th Congress of the Philippines, composed of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives, met from July 27, 1998, until June 8, 2001, during the 31-month presidency of Joseph Estrada and the first four months of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's presidency. The convening of the 11th Congress followed the 1998 national elections, which replaced half of the Senate membership, and the entire membership of the House of Representatives. The Estrada impeachment was the highlight of the 11th Congress.
The speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, more popularly known as the House speaker, is the presiding officer and the highest-ranking official of the lower house of Congress, the House of Representatives, as well as the fourth-highest official of the government of the Philippines.
The National Assembly of the Philippines refers to the legislature of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 to 1941, and of the Second Philippine Republic during the Japanese occupation. The National Assembly of the Commonwealth was created under the 1935 Constitution, which served as the Philippines' fundamental law to prepare it for its independence from the United States of America.
The 14th Congress of the Philippines, composed of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives, met from July 23, 2007, until June 9, 2010, during the last three years of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's presidency. The convening of the 14th Congress followed the 2007 general elections, which replaced half of the Senate membership and the entire membership of the House of Representatives. It celebrated the centennial year of the Philippine legislature.
The 15th Congress of the Philippines, composed of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives, met from July 26, 2010, until June 6, 2013, during the first three years of Benigno Aquino III's presidency. The convening of the 15th Congress followed the 2010 general elections, which replaced half of the Senate membership and the entire membership of the House of Representatives.
Renato Corona, the 23rd chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, was impeached on December 12, 2011. Corona was the third official, after former President Joseph Estrada in 2000 and Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez in March 2011, to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
The 2019 Philippine general election was conducted on May 13, 2019. A midterm election, those elected therein will take office on June 30, 2019, midway through the term of President Rodrigo Duterte.
In the United States, federal impeachment is the process by which the House of Representatives charges the president, vice president, or a civil federal officer for alleged misconduct. The House can impeach an individual with a simple majority of the present members or other criteria adopted by the House according to Article One, Section 2, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution.