Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.
Aquilino " Nene " Pimentel Quilinging, Jr. ( born December 11, 1933, Claveria, Misamis Oriental ) is a Filipino jurist, professor and politician.
Biography
Lawyer and opponent of the Marcos dictatorship
After school he studied law at the College of Law of Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan and graduated in 1959 with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ) from. He then worked between 1960 and 1980 as a lawyer. He also was the 1962 and 1967 Dean of the Faculty of Law of Xavier University.
His political career began in June 1971 with the election of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention, where he remained until September 1972. He then took his first job as a lawyer on before he was arrested in 1973 after the declaration of martial law by President Ferdinand Marcos due to protest against the new constitution for the first time and was interned in the military camp of Camp Crane in Quezon City. He then was from 1975 to 1979 professor of law at the Beda College. He was also at the same time between 1977 and 1979 professor of law at the Far Eastern University and legal counsel to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Peace of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines. In between, he was arrested again in 1978 due to protests and organizing demonstrations and rebellions and interned in military camps Camp Bicutan in Metro Manila.
In June 1980 he was elected mayor of Cagayan de Oro. After he was deposed in 1982 initially led to demonstrations begun immediately that he was restored to his office, and this held until June 1984. In 1983 he was again interned in military camps Camp Sergio Osmeña and Camp Sotero Cabahug in Cebu City and temporarily placed under house arrest.
About his personal experiences he later wrote an autobiography under the title of Martial Law in the Philippines: My Story.
In 1984 he was elected member of Congress ( Batasan Pambansa ). As the mandate it has been revoked by the Marcos regime, this decision was shortly overturned by the Supreme Court of the Philippines, so that he could take his seat until 1986.
Minister under Corazon Aquino and Senator
After the end of the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos during the People Power Revolution, he was appointed by President Corazon Aquino on 25 March 1986 for the Minister for Local Government (Minister of Local Government ) appointed and held that office until 30 June 1987. During this time was in 1987 he also presidential adviser and chief negotiator with the Islamic rebels.
After leaving the government, he was on 30 June 1987 and was a member of the Senate this to June 1992. Between 1991 and 1992 he was chairman of the influential Committee on public accountability, the so-called Blue Ribbon Committee, which deals with the investigation of bribery and corruption in the government for the first time.
In 1992 he ran for the office of vice president, but scored only 9.9 percent of the vote as " Running Mate" Jovito Salonga of. In the elections to the Senate in 1995, he was deprived of his victory, and he indicated the election frauds. The Supreme Court ruled in 2004 that the victory he had then conceded.
In June 1998 he was re-elected for a six year term as a member of the Senate and was this after a re-election in June 2004, with the third largest number of votes of 80 candidates for twelve senate seats to be elected by June 2010. He campaigned for electoral reforms as well as the indictment of the criminal backers of fraud in the elections in 1995 and 1998. During the first term he was on 13 November 2000 to July 23, 2001 President of the Senate. Subsequently, he was between 13 July 2001 and 2002, Minority Leader ( Minority Leader ) and thus opposition spokesman. The office of the minority leader, he held again between 26 July 2004 and his retirement from the Senate on 30 June 2010.
Most recently, he was from 1998 to 2010 again Chairman of the Blue Ribbon Committee.
For his political and legal services he has received several awards and has received honorary doctorate of Xavier University in specialist Humanities in 1993, the University of Baguio in trade law in 2000, the Notre Dame University in specialist Humanities in 2001, the Sultan Kudarat Polytechnic State College in Philosophy in 2004 and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines in the Public Trade administration, 2005.
Publications
Pimentel was also also the author of several legal reference books such as:
- The Local Government Code: The Key to National Development. Manila 1993
- The Barangay and the Local Government Code. Manila 1994
- With Mordino R. Cua: Cooperative Code of the Philippines: Theory, Law and Practice. Quezon City 1994
- Handbook on Cooperatives. Quezon City 1996
- Martial Law in the Philippines: My Story. Manila 2006
- The Making of the Human Security Act of 2007. The Philippine Anti-Terrorism Law. Perception and Reality. 2007
- The Local Government Code Revisited. 2007