Joker Arroyo

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Joker Paz Arroyo (born January 5, 1927 in Naga , Camarines Sur , Philippines , † October 5, 2015 in San Francisco , California , United States ) was a Filipino politician .

Life

Lawyer and opponent of the Marcos dictatorship

After attending school, he studied law at the University of the Philippines and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). He completed another degree in public law at the Ateneo de Manila University with an associate degree ( Associate of Arts in Public Law (AAPL)). After completing his studies, he worked as a lawyer .

After the imposition of martial law by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1972, he campaigned for human , freedom and equality rights . He was the first lawyer to file a lawsuit with the Supreme Court of the Philippines to review the compatibility of martial law ( Proclamation 1081 ) with the Constitution of the Philippines . He then went to the Supreme Court with other lawyers in cases of ratification of the 1973 Constitution dictated by Marcos, the 6th Amendment, which allowed President Marcos to pass laws alongside Parliament ( Batasang Pambansa ) , as well as the power of military courts to convict of civilians.

During the time of martial law, he represented well-known political figures in numerous court cases such as Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino , Eugenio Lopez, Jr. , Sergio Osmeña III , José María Sison , Jovito Salonga , Aquilino Pimentel , Eva Estrada-Kalaw , Renato Tañada and Eduardo Olaguer . He has served as a litigator in more human rights cases than any other lawyer in the Philippines. Because of these activities, however, he was interned in a military camp and injured while participating in protests. Most recently, he was the founder of FLAG, a lawyer group for free legal advice ( Free Legal Assistance Group ).

Political offices after the fall of Marcos

In the early presidential election in 1986 he was an advisor to Corazon Aquino and was appointed influential Executive Secretary after she took office as President in March 1986. He held this office until September 1987.

Between 1986 and 1990 he was also Chairman of the Board of the Philippine National Bank and Executive Director for the Philippines in the Asian Development Bank .

In the 1992 elections, he became a non-party member of the House of Representatives and, after his re-elections in 1995 and 1998 to June 2001, represented the 1st constituency of Makati City . In some cases, he was elected with 80 percent of the vote and set a parliamentary record of 100 percent attendance at the sessions of the House of Representatives during his entire membership in parliament.

He was the lead prosecutor in the 2001 impeachment trial of President Joseph Estrada .

After leaving the House of Representatives, he became a member of the Senate in June 2001 and was re-elected for a further six-year term in 2007. He was temporarily chairman of the committees on public accountability and investigations (the so-called "Blue Ribbon Committee"), justice and human rights, and public service.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ William Branigin: Joker Arroyo, key anti-Marcos figure in Philippines, this in US at 88. In: The Washington Post , October 7, 2015 (English). Retrieved October 8, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Arroyo, joker
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arroyo, Joker Paz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Naga , Camarines Sur
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 2015
Place of death San Francisco , California , United States