Francisco Tatad

Francisco Tatad (2011)

Francisco "Kit" Tatad (born October 4, 1939 in Gigmoto , Catanduanes Province ) is a former Filipino journalist and politician .

Life

After attending school, he first studied at the University of Santo Tomas . He then completed a postgraduate degree in economics at the Center for Communication Research , today's University of Asia and the Pacific. After completing his studies, he worked as a journalist and reporter for the daily Manila Bulletin and as a correspondent for the Agence France-Presse (AFP).

At the beginning of President Ferdinand Marcos' second term in office , he was appointed Minister of Information in 1969, making him the youngest member of the cabinet in the history of the Philippines at just under thirty . In his role as Minister of Information, he was responsible for press conferences and the distribution of news through the state-controlled mass media , especially after the imposition of martial law in the wake of the increasingly dictatorial rule of President Marcos on September 21, 1972.

In 1978 he was elected a member of the Congress ( Batasang Pambansa ) and was a member of it until 1984 after his resignation as minister in 1980.

After the fall of Ferdinand Marcos in the course of the EDSA revolution in February 1986, he resumed his work as a journalist and wrote articles for numerous internationally recognized newspapers such as the International Herald Tribune , The Asian Wall Street Journal , Far Eastern Economic Review , The Washington Quarterly , Business Day, and Philippine Daily Globe . He was then editor-in-chief and publisher of Philippines Newsday from 1989 to 1991 .

In the election of May 11, 1992, he was elected as a candidate of the Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC) for a member of the Senate and reached the 22nd result of 24 elected senators. In the subsequent election on May 8, 1995, he was re-elected Senator for the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP) with the eighth best result for a six-year term and was in the following period from October 10, 1996 to January 26, 1998 for the first time as Majority Floor Leader leader of the majority parliamentary group in the Senate.

He then ran in the presidential elections of May 11, 1998 for the People's Reform Party (PRP) for the office of Vice President as "running mate" at the side of Miriam Defensor Santiago , who ran for the office of president. In the election, however, he was only fifth behind Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and other candidates with 2.91 percent, while Miriam Defensor Santiago with 2.96 percent of the vote, behind Joseph Estrada and other candidates, even received only the seventh best result.

On July 12, 2000 he was again leader of the majority faction and this time held this position until he left the Senate on June 30, 2001.

Web links

• Senate homepage