Manny Villar

Manuel " Manny" Bamba Villar Jr. ( born December 13, 1949) is a Filipino politician and senator.

Biography

Villar was born in Todo and comes from a poor background. He married Cynthia Aguilar, the daughter of the mayor of Las Piñas. With the wealth Villar rose in 1975 very successfully in shops around the real estate sector a.

From 27 July 1998 to 13 November 2000 he was Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives. Later, he was from 2001 to 2002 Senate President Pro Tempore and 2006-2008 President of the Senate.

After giving Forbes 2009 Villar is now one of the wealthiest people in the Philippines.

He was a candidate in the Philippine presidential elections in 2010 and Chairman of the Conservative Nacionalista Party. For the 2010 Election Villar reached with his Conservative Party and an alliance with several people from the left, including the human rights activist Satur Ocampo, and announced the reduction of poverty among other things, a land reform to. He described himself as the only one playing against the oligarchy. He scored 15:42 % of the vote and lost the election thus in third place against the favorite Benigno Aquino III.