Antonio "Tonchi" Luansing Tinio is a Filipino activist and former member of the

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for ACT Teachers Partylist from 2010 to 2019 and served as Deputy Minority Leader in the 15th congress. He also served as the national chairperson of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) from 2002 to 2012. On December 4, 2024, Tinio and 74 others filed the second

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complaint against Vice President

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, submitting one article of impeachment: betrayal of public trust.

Early and personal life

Before his stint in Congress, Tinio was a

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(UP) professor from 1991 to 2010. He is the son of playwright, movie actor, and director

Rolando Tinio Rolando Santos Tinio (March 5, 1937 – July 7, 1997) was a Filipino poet, dramatist, director, actor, critic, essayist and educator."Philippine Theater", Nicanor G. Tiongson (ed.), CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, Volume VII, 1994 Biogra ...

and theater actress Ella Luansing.

Political career

As legislator, he was the principal author of Republic Act 10653, which broadened the tax exemptions for the 13th month pay (mandatory year-end bonus amounting to a month of salary) of both public and private sector employees in the Philippines, and the staunchest legislator-advocate of salary hikes for public school teachers.

Personal life

Tinio is married to Maria Teresa Trinidad P. Tinio.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tinio, Antonio 1970 births Living people Academic staff of the University of the Philippines Filipino activists Filipino educators Filipino politicians of Chinese descent Party-list members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines Place of birth missing (living people) Politicians from Quezon City