Miriam Defensor Santiago

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Miriam Defensor Santiago (November 2011)

Miriam Palma Defensor Santiago (born June 15, 1945 in La Paz , Iloilo City , Iloilo ; † September 29, 2016 in Taguig , Metro Manila ) was a Filipino lawyer , journalist and politician who unsuccessfully for the office of 1992, 1998 and 2016 Candidate for President of the Philippines and was a Senator between 1995 and 2001 and again since 2004 . In November 2011 she was elected judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague and officially took up this office in March 2012, but still kept her Senate seat. She was the first Filipino citizen and at the same time the first female ICC judge from an Asian developing country . On June 3, 2014, she announced her resignation for health reasons.

Life

Private life

From 1970, Defensor was married to customs officer Narciso Y. "Jun" Santiago Jr. , whom she had met while studying law and who was under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Interior and Local Government during Joseph Estrada's presidency . The two had two sons, one of whom committed suicide in 2003.

Studies and professional career

After attending La Paz Elementary School and Iloilo National High School , both of which she graduated with honors, Miriam Defensor, daughter of a judge and a college professor, began studying at the University of the Philippines in 1961, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 (BA) magna cum laude . She then completed a law degree at the University of the Philippines in 1969 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) cum laude .

After completing her studies and being admitted to the bar, she became a special assistant to the Minister of Justice in 1970 and held this position for ten years until 1980. In addition, she took over a professorship at Trinity College of Quezon City between 1971 and 1974 and was also a columnist , between 1972 and 1975 with the Philippine Daily Express and from 1976 to 1978 with the Philippine Panorama . She then completed a postgraduate degree in law at the University of Michigan Law School , where she initially obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in 1975 and a Doctor of the Science of Law (SJD) in 1976.

Then Miriam Defensor Santiago was a lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of the Philippines from 1976 to 1988 and also a member of the film censorship authority from 1977 to 1979.

Between 1979 and 1980 she worked as a legal advisor to Poul Hartling , the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva . After her return, she was legal advisor at the Law Center of the University of the Philippines between 1981 and 1983 and at the same time legal advisor at the Philippine Embassy in the USA in 1982 .

In 1983 she was appointed presiding judge of the 106th Chamber of the Quezon City Regional Court , where she served until 1987. At the same time she was again a columnist for the Philippine Panorama from 1985 to 1988 .

After the end of the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos , Miriam Defensor Santiago, who after further studies in religious studies at the Maryhill School of Theology in Quezon City also obtained a Master of Arts (MA Religious Science), became a board member of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Authority in 1988 ( NAIAA), Manila Airport .

In addition to this position, which she held until 1989, she was also a board member of the Philippine Retirement Authority and a member of the Commission of Immigration and Deportation . She was also a member of the Public Estates Authority from 1988 to 1991, and was honored with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service , named after Ramon Magsaysay . From 1992 she was a senior partner in the law firm Miriam Defensor Santiago Law Office .

1994 was a columnist for the Today newspaper for some time.

Appeal to the International Criminal Court in The Hague

On December 12, 2011, Miriam Defensor Santiago was elected judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague with a large majority of 79 out of 104 votes for a nine-year term . For health reasons, she announced her resignation as a judge in June 2014. She stated that she suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome . A month later, she announced that she had lung cancer .

Political career

Minister and presidential candidate 1992

In July 1989 Miriam Defensor Santiago was briefly Minister for Agricultural Reforms in the government of President Corazon Aquino until January 1990 and was also a board member of the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP).

She founded the Movement for Responsible Public Service in 1990 and became its chairman.

After she founded the People's Reform Party (PRP), she ran for president on May 11, 1992. In the election, however, she was defeated by former defense minister Fidel Ramos , who was elected president with 5,342,521 votes (23.58 percent), while she came second with 4,468,173 votes (19.72 percent). Your "running mate" for the office of Vice President, Ramon Magsaysay, Jr. , won with 2,900,556 votes (14.2 percent) after Joseph Estrada , Marcelo B. Fernan and Emilio Mario Osmeña only fourth place among the seven candidates for the office of Vice President.

Senator and candidate for presidency in 1998

In May 1995 she was elected Senator for a six-year term for the first time and represented the PRP in the Senate until 2001.

In the presidential elections on May 11, 1998, she ran again for the office of president, but this time landed with 797,206 votes (2.96 percent) after Joseph Estrada, who was elected president (10,722,295 votes), Jose De Venecia Jr. , Raul Roco , Emilio Mario Osmeña, Alfredo Lim and Renato de Villa were beaten in seventh place among the ten candidates for president. Her the times "running mate" for the office of Vice President Francisco TatAd , finished with 745,389 votes (2.91 percent) to Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (12,667,252 votes), Edgardo Angara , Oscar Orbos and Sergio Osmeña III fifth among the nine candidates for the vice-presidency.

Since 2004

In the Senate elections on May 10, 2004 Miriam Defensor Santiago was again elected Senator for a six-year term and achieved seventh place among the twelve Senate mandates with 12,187,401 votes. During that time, she was chair of both the Senate Committee on Energy and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations .

In the last Senate elections on May 10, 2010, she was confirmed with 17,344,742 votes in her Senatorial office and this time occupied after Ramon Revilla jr. (19,513,521 votes) and Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada (18,925,925 votes) took third place among the twelve Senate seats to be awarded. In the 15th  Congress in office for the legislative period , she was now chair of the Senate Committee on Constitutional Amendments and the Revision of Legislation and Laws (Committee on Constitutional Amendments, Revision of Codes and Laws) .

In the presidential election in May 2016 , she ran again as a candidate for the PRP. Her “ running mate ” (preferred vice-presidential candidate) was Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. , the son of the former dictator Ferdinand Marcos . It came in fifth and last place with 3.4% of the vote.

Awards (selection)

  • 1988 Magsaysay Award for Government Service
  • 1988 Gold Vision Triangle Award for Government service, YMCA Philippines
  • 1989 Doctor of Laws h onoris Causa, Centro Escolar University
  • 1989 Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, Xavier University, Ateneo de Cagayan de Oro
  • 2017 Quezon Service Cross posthumously

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miriam Defensor Santiago, former senator, dies . Rappler, September 29, 2016, accessed October 1, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Christina Mendez: Miriam quits as ICC judge. Philstar.com , June 3, 2014, accessed October 1, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Miriam's other helped, Jun Santiago. GMA News Online, May 4, 2016.
  4. ↑ Thea Alberto-Masakayan: Narciso 'Jun' Santiago, Miriam's shock absorber . ABS-CBN, May 4, 2016.
  5. ↑ Arianne Merez: Miriam Santiago to be buried beside son. ABS-CBN News, September 29, 2016.
  6. ^ Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago Elected as International Criminal Court Judge. Manila Bulletin December 13, 2011, archived from the original July 15, 2012 ; accessed on October 1, 2016 . Dr. Miriam Defensor Santiago Tops Election for International Criminal Court Judges. Philippine Foreign Ministry press release, December 13, 2011, archived from the original on July 11, 2012 ; accessed on October 1, 2016 (English).
  7. ↑ Ayee Macaraig: It's final - Miriam steps down as ICC judge. In: Rappler , June 3, 2014.
  8. ↑ Ayee Macaraig: Miriam Santiago - I have lung cancer. In: Rappler , July 2, 2014.
  9. ↑ Yuji Vincent Gonzales: Miriam Santiago defends choice of Bongbong Marcos as VP. In: Inquirer.net , October 16, 2016.
  10. ^ Lara Tan: 'A woman way ahead of her time' - Lawmakers remember Miriam Defensor-Santiago. CNN Philippines, September 29, 2016.
  11. ↑ Ramon Magsaysay Awardee Miriam Defensor Santiago (1945-2016) • The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation • Honoring greatness of spirit and transformative leadership in Asia. Retrieved August 21, 2018 (American English).
  12. ↑ a b Press Release - Highest national award to be bestowed on Miriam Santiago - Poe. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Defensor Santiago, Miriam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Defensor Santiago, Miriam Palma (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino politician, lawyer and judge
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH La Paz , Iloilo City , Iloilo , Philippines
DATE OF DEATH 29th September 2016
Place of death Manila