Juan Liwag

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Juan Ramos Liwag (born June 12, 1906 in Gapan , Nueva Ecija ; † November 30, 1983 ) was a Filipino lawyer and politician of the Partido Liberal ng Pilipinas , who was, among other things, Justice Minister and Senator.

Life

Lawyer, Judge and Solicitor General

Liwag came from a well-known family from which numerous politicians and military figures emerged like Miguel Liwag , who was governor of Nueva Ecija between 1931 and 1934 . After attending Gapan Intermediate School and High School, he completed a liberal arts degree at the University of the Philippines . He then studied law at the University of the Philippines and graduated in 1932 as the best in his class. He took second place in the nationwide state law examination ( Philippine Bar Examination ) and then took up a position as a lawyer .

1945 changed Liwag in the public service and was initially prosecutor ( Prosecutor ) in the Ministry of Justice before he later assumed the position of Head of the Office of the Special Prosecutor. In 1949 he became a judge at a Court of First Instance and in 1950 a judge at the District Court responsible for the provinces of Albay and Catanduanes .

In 1952, Liwag succeeded Pompeyo Diaz as Solicitor General of the Philippines and was the Philippines' chief legal advisor until he was replaced by Querube Makalintal in 1954.

Minister of Justice

After President Diosdado Macapagal took office on December 30, 1961, Liwag was initially Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Justice, before he became Secretary of Justice on May 19, 1962 as the successor to Jose Diokno himself . He held the post of Minister of Justice until his replacement by Salvador L. Marino on July 9, 1963.

In this role he continued the investigation into the so-called Stonehill scandal , which was used to test the Macapagal government in the campaign against corruption . Justice Minister Diokno had started investigations into tax evasion, smuggling , misrepresentation of imports and bribery of public servants against Harry Stonehill, a US- born stateless entrepreneur with a US $ 50 million corporate empire . The investigation revealed Stonehill's relationship in bribing the government. President Macapagal eventually released Diokno from the investigation and eventually had Stonehill deported. Diokno later criticized the decision of President Macapagal and Justice Minister Liwag with the words: “How can the government now prosecute the bribed if it has allowed the briber to leave?” ('How can the government now prosecute the corrupted when it has allowed the corrupter to go? ')

As Minister of Justice, Liwag was also responsible for clearing up a credit scandal at the Philippine National Bank and ending the years of uncontrolled immigration and the granting of citizenship . He also campaigned for workers' rights and declared the daily support of two pesos for the unemployed to be unconstitutional and inhuman. In his ministry, he implemented wage increases for judges, legal advisers, prosecutors and court staff.

On the other hand, there was also criticism of Liwag, for example by Senator Lorenzo Tañada , who criticized the fact that Liwag, who deals with corporate law issues, himself received income from the Banalbagan-Isabela Sugar Co. , the Pampanga Sugar Mills and the Marcelo Steel Corp. received. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Philippine Development Bank and of Biscom Findlay Millar Timber Co. , Industrial Co. Inc. , Philippine Investment Co. , Philippine Portland Cement Co. and Trans-Pacific Investment Corp.

senator

In the elections of November 12, 1963, Liwag obtained as a candidate for the Partido Liberal ng Pilipinas 2,704,222 votes and thus won the eighth of the eight Senate seats to be allocated, whereby he became a member of the Senate for a six-year electoral period .

During his Senate membership, he was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Law Review and Reorganization of Government Administration. He was also a member of the Senate Committees for Accounts, Economics, Investigation, Justice, Labor and Immigration, National Defense, and Public Works and Communications. In the 1968 dispute over Sabah , he proposed the adoption of a provision that would further secure the Philippines' claim to parts of northern Borneo with regard to the delimitation of the border lines with Sabah.

In the Senate elections on September 11, 1969, he won 2,355,377 votes, but only took thirteenth place out of eight seats to be awarded and thus lost his Senate seat.

On November 10, 1970 he was elected delegate to the Philippine Constitutional Convention , in which he represented the second district of Nueva Ecija.

The Juan R. Liwag Memorial High School in Gapan was named in his honor.

Web links

  • Biography (Homepage of the Philippine Senate)
  • Biography on the homepage of the Office des Solicitor General

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Liwag Family Wall of Fame
  2. ^ The Philippines: Smoke in Manila . In: Time of August 10, 1962
  3. ↑ Dante C. Simbulan: The Modern principalia: The Historical Evolution of the Philippine Ruling Oligarchy , 2005, ISBN 9-71542-4-961 , S. 199th
  4. ↑ Dante C. Simbulan: The Modern principalia: The Historical Evolution of the Philippine Ruling Oligarchy , 2005, ISBN 9-71542-4-961 , S. 267 f, p 280th.
  5. ↑ Rodolfo Severino: Where in the World is the Philippines ?: Debating Its National Territory , 2011, ISBN 9-81431-1-715 , p. 40.
  6. ^ Joaquin G. Bernas: Foreign Relations in Constitutional Law , 1995, ISBN 9-71231-9-032 , p. 40.
  7. ^ Juan R. Liwag Memorial High School
personal data
SURNAME Liwag, Juan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liwag, Juan Ramos (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Gapan , Nueva Ecija
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1983