Cesar Virata
Cesar Enrique Virata y Aguinaldo (born December 12, 1930 in Kawit ) is a former Filipino politician .
biography
Virata came from a family from the province of Cavite and was a great-grand-nephew of Emilio Aguinaldo .
In 1965, the newly elected President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos appointed him to his government team. There he was responsible for solving the problems in the rice industry . After completing this task, he initially worked as a university professor, but was reappointed to Marcos' advisory team in March 1967.
In 1970 Marcos appointed him finance minister in his government. He kept this office after his appointment as Prime Minister of the Philippines on April 8, 1981. Between 1978 and 1986 he was also a member of parliament, first representing the Central Visayas region and then, since 1984, the Cavite Province.
Following the example of the French constitution , he tried as the successor to Marcos, who also held the post of Prime Minister in personal union since June 12, 1978, to return the government to normal after more than eight years of rule under martial law .
After President Marcos fled to the United States on February 25, 1986, he resigned and then handed over the post of Prime Minister to Vice President Salvador Laurel , while Jaime Ongpin became the new finance minister in the government of President Corazon Aquino .
literature
- Cesar E. Virata , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 23/1986 of May 26, 1986, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Virata, Cesar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Virata y Aguinaldo, Cesar Enrique (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Filipino politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kawit |