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KiBam
KiBam, also known as Kiko–Bam, is the umbrella of the opposition-backed candidacies of former senators Kiko Pangilinan and Bam Aquino for the 2025 Philippine Senate election. Led by the Liberal Party, the coalition was formed on November 9, 2024, and includes the Akbayan and Katipunan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino parties. Background Formation At a forum of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) on February 22, 2024, Liberal Party spokesperson and former senator Leila de Lima announced that the party plans to field former senators Bam Aquino and Kiko Pangilinan, as well as human rights lawyer Chel Diokno of the Katipunan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KANP), as its senatorial candidates in the upcoming election. Aquino confirmed his bid for the Senate on May 14 after being appointed as the chairman of KANP. While former vice president and 2022 presidential candidate Leni Robredo was floated as a possible candidate, Robredo ruled out a bid for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Philippine Senate Election
The 2025 Philippine Senate election was the 35th Philippine Senate elections, election of members to the Senate of the Philippines. It was held on May 12, 2025, within the 2025 Philippine general election. The seats of the 12 senators elected in 2019 Philippine Senate election, 2019 were contested in this election. The senators who will be elected in this election will serve until 2031, joining the winners of the 2022 Philippine Senate election, 2022 election to form the Senate's delegation to the 20th Congress of the Philippines, with the senators elected in 2022 serving until 2028. The election was shaped by several key issues, including employment and food security, concerns over the quality of public services such as healthcare, water, and education, and the demand for stronger anti-corruption measures and government accountability. Additionally, the Impeachment of Sara Duterte, impeachment of vice president Sara Duterte and the Arrest of Rodrigo Duterte, arrest of former p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bam Aquino
Paolo Benigno "Bam" Aguirre Aquino IV (, born May 7, 1977) is a Filipino politician who is a senator-elect of the Philippines following the 2025 Philippine Senate election. A member of the Katipunan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KANP), he previously served as a senator from 2013 to 2019 and as deputy Senate minority leader from 2017 to 2019. Born into the prominent Aquino family, he graduated as valedictorian from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1999. Aquino served as chairman of the National Youth Commission from 2003 to 2006 under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. He participated in various documentaries and films and was president of the social enterprise MicroVentures, Inc. Aquino was elected senator in 2013 under Team PNoy, chairing the Committee on Trade, Commerce, and Entrepreneurship, and the Committee on Youth (2013–2016), and later the Committee on Science and Technology (2016–2019). He was the principal sponsor of the Universal Access to Quality Terti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party (Philippines)
The Liberal Party of the Philippines (, LP) is a liberal political party in the Philippines. Founded on January 19, 1946 by Manuel Roxas, Elpidio Quirino, and José Avelino from the breakaway liberal wing of the old Nacionalista, the Liberal remains the second-oldest active political party in the Philippines after the Nacionalista, and the oldest continually active party. The Liberals served as the governing party of four Philippine presidents: Manuel Roxas, Elpidio Quirino, Diosdado Macapagal, and Benigno Aquino III. As a vocal opposition party to the dictatorship of their former member Ferdinand Marcos, it reemerged as a major political party after the People Power Revolution and the establishment of the Fifth Republic. It subsequently served as a senior member of President Corazon Aquino's UNIDO coalition. Upon Corazon Aquino's death in 2009, the party regained popularity, winning the 2010 Philippine presidential election under Benigno Aquino III and returning it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Pangilinan
Francis Pancratius "Kiko" Nepomuceno Pangilinan (; born August 24, 1963) is a Filipino lawyer, politician, and farm owner who is a Senate of the Philippines, senator-elect of the Philippines. He previously served as senator from 2001 to 2013 and from 2016 to 2022 and was the Majority Floor Leader of the Senate of the Philippines, Senate majority floor leader from 2004 to 2008. A graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Law and the Harvard Kennedy School, Pangilinan began his political career as the youngest elected Quezon City Council, councilor of Quezon City, serving from 1988 to 1992, and later founded the National Movement of Young Legislators. He then worked as a television and radio host for ABS-CBN, notably co-hosting the public service program ''Hoy Gising!'' (1993–1997) as a legal expert. During his first two Senate terms, Pangilinan authored landmark legislation such as a Incarceration of children in the Philippines, juvenile justice law that has si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akbayan
The Akbayan Citizens' Action Party, better known as Akbayan (), is a Social democracy, social democratic and Progressivism, progressive List of political parties in the Philippines, political party in the Philippines. The party is noted as a leading member of the progressive movement in the Philippines. The party was founded in 1998 by a variety of progressive and left-leaning Political organisation, political organizations. Currently, the party holds one seat in the Senate of the Philippines, Senate, and three seats in the House of Representatives of the Philippines, House of Representatives as a multi-sectoral Party-list representation in the House of Representatives of the Philippines, party-list. Internationally, the party is a member of the Progressive Alliance and the regional Network of Social Democracy in Asia. History Origins and early years Akbayan traces its roots to the Kaakbay ng Sambayanan, an alliance founded on February 25, 1992, by various Non-government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiko Pangilinan
Francis Pancratius "Kiko" Nepomuceno Pangilinan (; born August 24, 1963) is a Filipino lawyer, politician, and farm owner who is a senator-elect of the Philippines. He previously served as senator from 2001 to 2013 and from 2016 to 2022 and was the Senate majority floor leader from 2004 to 2008. A graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Law and the Harvard Kennedy School, Pangilinan began his political career as the youngest elected councilor of Quezon City, serving from 1988 to 1992, and later founded the National Movement of Young Legislators. He then worked as a television and radio host for ABS-CBN, notably co-hosting the public service program '' Hoy Gising!'' (1993–1997) as a legal expert. During his first two Senate terms, Pangilinan authored landmark legislation such as a juvenile justice law that has since been called the "Pangilinan Law" and an organic farming protection law. After serving as Presidential Assistant for Food Security and Agri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katipunan Ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino
The Katipunan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KNP or KANP, ) is a political party in the Philippines. The party was founded in June 19, 2020 by Kerby Salazar, a provincial board member from Cavite, to be a platform for youth empowerment in the national government. History In October 2021, KANP welcomed lawyer Chel Diokno as its party member and senatorial candidate for the upcoming 2022 Philippine general elections. The party also adopted presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo, vice presidential aspirant Senator Kiko Pangilinan, and senatorial aspirant and former Congressman Teddy Baguilat as their national candidates. In May 2024, former senator Bam Aquino announced he had assumed the role of KANP's party chairman after leaving the Liberal Party. He has also stated his intention to run in the 2025 Senate elections. As the chairman of KANP, he formed a coalition with his former party to form a coalition duo with his former Senate colleague Pangilinan. Organizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risa Hontiveros
Ana Theresia "Risa" Navarro Hontiveros Baraquel (; born February 24, 1966) is a Filipino politician who has served as a senator of the Philippines since 2016. A member of the progressive Akbayan party, she previously served as its party-list representative from 2004 to 2010. Born to a prominent family in the Philippines, Hontiveros studied social sciences at the Ateneo de Manila University, graduating in 1987. She worked as a journalist for IBC and GMA Network and became involved in the formation of Akbayan in 1998. After being elected to the House of Representatives in 2004, she emerged as a major opposition figure to the administration of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. During her tenure as a representative, she advocated for the passage of the SOGIE Equality Bill and the Reproductive Health Law. Hontiveros ran for the Senate twice—in 2010 and 2013— before being elected in 2016. As a senator, she authored and led the passage of the Mental Health Act and the Safe Streets a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Robredo–Pangilinan
Team Robredo–Pangilinan (TRoPa), also known as Tropang Angat, was an electoral alliance that supported Philippine vice president Leni Robredo's Leni Robredo 2022 presidential campaign, presidential campaign and Senator Francis Pangilinan's vice presidential campaign in the 2022 Philippine general election. Its senatorial slate included members of the Liberal Party (Philippines), Liberal Party, Akbayan, Katipunan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino, and Ang Kapatiran. Guest candidates in the TRoPa slate are members of Bagumbayan–VNP, Nationalist People's Coalition, and United Nationalist Alliance. Branding Robredo used the pink color while campaigning instead of yellow which associated with the Aquino family, Aquinos and Lakas ng Bayan (later Partido Demokratiko Pilipino, PDP–Laban). Robredo also ran as an Independent politician, independent. Senatorial slate Robredo and her running mate, Francis Pangilinan, Kiko Pangilinan, endorsed the following candidates for the 2022 Philippin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
