Benasing Onayan Macarambon Jr. is a Filipino politician who served as representative of the Second District of

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(1998–2007). In 2018, he was appointed by

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Rodrigo Duterte Rodrigo Roa Duterte (, ; born March 28, 1945) is a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the 16th president of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022. He is the first Philippine president from Mindanao, and is the oldest person to assum ...

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board member and director until September 22, 2022. Prior to being a legislator, on December 29, 1987, Macarambon was designated by then Secretary of Local Government Luis T. Santos as member of the ''Sangguniang Pampook'' (Regional Assembly) in Region XII. The said position was ceased as being abolished by the enactment in 1989 of ''

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(RA) No. 6734'', setting the elections in the

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. As a legislator, he authored numerous House bills, among them an act granting the Muslim Development Multipurpose Cooperative a broadcast franchise (''RA No. 9171'') and another creating a secondary school in Sultan Gumander, Lanao del Sur (''RA No. 8912''). In 2007, he ran for

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under ''

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'' but lost. He is a leader of the

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and an advocate for the ecological protection of

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