Aquilino Pimentel junior

Aquilino Pimentel

Aquilino "Nene" Quilinging Pimentel, Jr. (born December 11, 1933 in Claveria , Misamis Oriental , † October 20, 2019 in Manila ) was a Filipino law scholar , university professor and politician .

biography

Lawyer and opponent of the Marcos dictatorship

After attending school, he studied law at the College of Law at Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan , graduating in 1959 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). He then worked as a lawyer between 1960 and 1980 . He was also Dean of the Law Faculty of Xavier University from 1962 and 1967 .

He began his political career in June 1971 when he was elected delegate to the Constitutional Convention, of which he was a member until September 1972. He then resumed his practice as a lawyer before he was arrested for the first time in 1973 after the imposition of martial law by President Ferdinand Marcos for protests against the new constitution and was interned in the Camp Crane military camp in Quezon City . He was then from 1975 to 1979 Professor of Law at Beda College . In addition, between 1977 and 1979 he was Professor of Law at Far Eastern University and legal advisor to the Committee on Law and Peace of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines. In between, he was arrested again in 1978 for protests and the organization of demonstrations and rebellions and interned in the Camp Bicutan military camp in Metro Manila .

In June 1980 he was elected Mayor of Cagayan de Oro . After he was initially deposed in 1982, demonstrations that began immediately afterwards led to his being reinstated in his office, which he held until June 1984. In 1983 he was interned again in the Camp Sergio Osmeña and Camp Sotero Cabahug military camps in Cebu City and was temporarily placed under house arrest.

He later wrote an autobiography about his personal experiences entitled Martial Law in the Philippines: My Story .

In 1984 he was elected member of the Congress (Batasan Pambansa) . When he was stripped of his mandate by the Marcos regime, this decision was reversed shortly afterwards by the Supreme Court of the Philippines , so that he could accept his mandate until 1986.

Minister under Corazon Aquino and Senator

After the end of the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in the course of the People Power Revolution, he was appointed Minister of Local Government by President Corazon Aquino on March 25, 1986 and held this office until June 30, 1987. During this time In 1987 he was also a presidential advisor and chief negotiator with the Islamic rebels.

After leaving the government, he became a member of the Senate on June 30, 1987 and was a member of the Senate until June 1992. Between 1991 and 1992 he was the first chairman of the influential committee on public accountability, the so-called Blue Ribbon Committee , which investigates bribery and corruption in the government.

In 1992 he ran for the office of Vice President, but achieved only 9.9 percent of the vote as "running mate" of Jovito Salonga . In the 1995 Senate elections, he was deprived of his victory, whereupon he reported the electoral fraudsters. The Supreme Court only ruled in 2004 that he should have won the day.

In June 1998 he was re-elected for a six-year term as a member of the Senate and, after being re-elected in June 2004, he was a member of the Senate with the third-best result of 80 candidates for twelve Senate mandates to be elected until June 2010. He campaigned for electoral reforms as well as the indictment of the criminals behind the fraud in the 1995 and 1998 elections. During the first legislative period he was Senate President from November 13, 2000 to July 23, 2001. Subsequently, between July 13, 2001 and 2002, he was a minority leader and thus spokesman for the opposition . He again held the position of minority leader between July 26, 2004 and his departure from the Senate on June 30, 2010.

Most recently he was chairman of the Blue Ribbon Committee again from 1998 to 2010 .

He has received multiple awards for his political and legal services and received honorary doctorates from Xavier University in the humanities course in 1993, the University of Baguio in the course in law in 2000, the Notre Dame University in the course in humanities in 2001, the Sultan Kudarat Polytechnic State College in the course in philosophy in 2004 and from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Public Administration 2005.

Publications

Pimentel was also the author of several legal books such as:

• The Local Government Code: The Key to National Development. Manila 1993
• The Barangay and the Local Government Code. Manila 1994
• with Mordino R. Cua: Cooperative Code of the Philippines: Theory, Law and Practice. Quezon City 1994
• Handbook on Cooperatives. Quezon City 1996
• Martial Law in the Philippines: My Story. Manila 2006
• The Making of the Human Security Act of 2007. The Philippine Anti-Terrorism Law. Perception and Reality. 2007
• The Local Government Code Revisited. 2007

Web links

Commons : Aquilino Pimentel Jr.  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Senate homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Chairman of the Blue Ribbon Committee ( Memento from September 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )