Francisco Tatad
Francisco " Kit" TatAd ( born October 4, 1939 in Gigmoto, Catanduanes Province ) is a former Filipino journalist and politician.
Life
After school he studied at the University of Santo Tomas. He then completed a postgraduate degree in economics at the Center for Communications Research, now the University of Asia and the Pacific. After finishing his studies he worked as a journalist and reporter for the daily newspaper Manila Bulletin worked well as a correspondent for Agence France-Presse ( AFP).
At the beginning of the second term of President Ferdinand Marcos, he was appointed by that Minister of Information in 1969 and was nearly thirty years so the youngest member of the Cabinet in the history of the Philippines. In his capacity as Minister of Information, he was responsible for press conferences and the dissemination of news through the state-controlled mass media, especially after the imposition of martial law in the wake of increasingly dictatorial rule of President Marcos on September 21, 1972.
In 1978 he was elected a member of Congress ( Batasang Pambansa ) and this was even after his resignation as Prime Minister in 1980 until 1984.
After the fall of Ferdinand Marcos during the EDSA Revolution in February 1986, he resumed his work as a journalist again and wrote in the period following articles for numerous internationally recognized newspapers like the International Herald Tribune, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, The Washington Quarterly, Business Day and Philippine Daily Globe. After that, he was from 1989 to 1991 chief editor and publisher of Philippines Newsday.
In the election of 11 May 1992, he was elected as a candidate of the Nationalist People's Coalition ( NPC) as a member of the Senate and reached there by 24 elected senators of 22 results. In the subsequent elections of 8 May 1995, he was elected for the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP ) with the eight best result for a six-year period of office as senator and was in the aftermath of 10 October 1996 to 26 January 1998 for the first as majority Floor leader leader of the majority party in the Senate.
Then he ran in the presidential election of 11 May 1998 for the People's Reform Party (PRP ) for the office of Vice- President as "running mate" on the side of Miriam Defensor Santiago, who ran for the office of President. In the election, however, he finished behind Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo and other candidates with 2.91 percent only in fifth place, while Miriam Defensor Santiago with 2.96 percent of the vote behind Joseph Estrada and other candidates even received only the seventh- best result.
On 12 July 2000, he was again leader of the majority party and exercised this function this time until his retirement from the Senate on June 30, 2001.