Edgardo Angara
Edgardo Javier Angara (born September 24, 1934 in Baler , Aurora ; † May 13, 2018 ) was a Filipino politician .
biography
Promotion to Senate President
His political career began in 1971 when he was elected the youngest delegate to the Constitutional Convention . In 1972 he founded the ACCRA law firm, which has become one of the most prestigious law firms in the country.
Between 1981 and 1987 he was President of the University of the Philippines and gained national fame by making the state university the first higher education center in the country again.
He was elected to the Senate for the first time in June 1987 and was a member of the Senate until June 1998. During this time he was President of the Senate from January 1993 to August 1995. Subsequently he was a minority leader between 1995 and 1996 and thus spokesman for the opposition .
Through the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA) passed on his initiative, farmers and fishermen benefit from improved seeds and planting material, better irrigation, better financing options and access to markets.
In addition, he was from 1992 to 2004 chairman of the opposition party Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP).
After leaving the Senate, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Philippine National Bank between 1998 and 1999 and developed it into a major bank in the national financial market.
Minister and new Senate membership
In May 1999 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture by President Joseph Estrada and was able to implement the AFMA he initiated during his term of office, which lasted until January 2001. He also promoted the improvement of food production programs and grants that led to larger rice harvests and thus developed the improvement of self-sufficiency. Overall, there has been a 3 percent increase in the agricultural sector's growth rate since 2000, compared to 1.2 percent growth in the previous two decades.
Between January 6 and January 20, 2001, he was also Executive Secretary in the Estrada Cabinet for a short time, taking on the most important cabinet office after President and Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo . After the removal of President Estrada in the course of the EDSA II revolution and the inauguration of President Macapagal-Arroyo on January 20, 2001, he left the government after the peaceful transfer of power.
On June 30, 2001, Edgardo Angara returned to the Senate. As such, he campaigned for various legislative initiatives , such as the Free High School Act , which made secondary education possible for poorer students, or the Senior Citizens Act , which brought older people substantial discounts on the purchase of medicines or in local public transport and after him also called Angara Law . Other legislative ideas included the National Health Insurance Act (PHILHEALTH) , which provided insurance coverage for every citizen, and the Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education (GASTPE) , the largest educational program in private schools in the Philippines.
As chairman of the Education Committee of Congress , he promoted legislative initiatives that led to the establishment of the Commission on Higher Education and the Technical Education and Skill Development Authority , creating the Department of Education ) could concentrate more on primary education again.
He was also an authoritative author of the Magna Carta for Public Health Workers and the laws establishing the new National Museum and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
Since 2005 he was also chairman of the LDP again and was also elected President of the Southeast Asia Parliamentarians Against Corruption for the Philippines in 2005 . As such, he introduced the legislative initiative for the Procurement Reform Act , the most extensive anti- corruption law in the history of the Philippines, and was also the "father" of the law for the establishment of an ombudsman .
In the Senate of the 15th Congress , he was chairman of the committees for education, the arts and culture and for science and technology. On June 30, 2013, Angara resigned from the Senate, after he was no longer allowed to run for two terms in a row.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Angara, Edgardo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Angara, Edgardo Javier (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Filipino politician and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baler , Aurora |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 2018 |