Ram Felix Rengel, Jr.
President Corazon Aquino
President of the Republic of the Philippines since February 25, 1986, Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, has experienced praise and faced adversity with courage and directness.
Kabayan Noli de Castro
Noli de Castro's ascendancy to the second highest post in the republic could rightly be called, as one news report puts it, "the pinoy dream." He transcended his family's poverty and now holds the mandate of the Filipino people.
Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos
Fidel Valdez Ramos (born March 18, 1928), military hero of the 1986 People Power Revolution that toppled the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, became the 12th President of the Republic of the Philippines on June 30, 1992. He succeeded Corazon Aquino and governed until 1998, when he was succeeded by Joseph Estrada. His six-year term as president was widely recognized in building economic and political growth and stability in the country despite facing communist insurgencies, an Islamic separatist movement in Mindanao and the onslaught of the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
Philippine Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr.
Partisan politics is the public face of democracy, the most visible manifestation of political liberty. It thrives in the Philippines. Yet in the Philippines and everywhere else, as we know, the liberty of partisan politics depends ultimately upon restraints imposed by law and by the authority of governing institutions. Few people understand this paradox of freedom better than Hilario G. Davide Jr., chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
The Year 2005 in Review: Politics
The worst kind of politics ruled the lives of Filipinos in 2005 as the country struggled with a scandal that almost toppled the government of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo amid a worsening economy.
As political leaders threw mud and everything but the kitchen sink at each other all year round, the country was constantly on edge over rumours of a military takeover or alleged plans by the government to declare martial law.
