Carlos "Charlie" Oppen Cojuangco (April 14, 1963 – February 22, 2022) was a Filipino politician who served in the Philippine House of Representatives for two different districts:
Tarlac
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's
1st district and
Negros Occidental
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's
4th district
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.
Political career
Cojuangco served in the
Philippine House of Representatives
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as congressman of
Negros Occidental
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's
4th district
Fourth or the fourth may refer to:
* the ordinal form of the number 4
* ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971
* Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision
* Fourth (music), a musical interval
* ''The Fourth'', a 1972 Soviet drama
...
from 1998 to 2007,
and then as congressman of
Tarlac
Tarlac, officially the Province of Tarlac (; ; ; ; ), is a landlocked Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon Regions of the Philippines, region. It had a population of 1,503,456 people according to ...
's
1st district from 2016 until his death, when he replaced his uncle
Henry Cojuangco, who died in 2015 and did not finish his term. Both were members of the
Nationalist People's Coalition
The Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC) is a conservatism, conservative political party in the Philippines which was founded in 1992 by presidential candidate Danding Cojuangco.
History
Formation
In 1990, amid political and economic unce ...
(NPC).
He was supposed to run for a third consecutive term, but he suffered an untimely death on February 2022. Due to his passing, his son
Jaime Cojuangco
Jaime Eduardo Marc Diaz Cojuangco (born April 12, 1997) is a Filipino politician who is the representative of the 1st district of Tarlac in the House of Representatives of the Philippines
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substituted for him, and subsequently won in the elections.
Personal life
Cojuangco was the son of business magnate and NPC founder
Danding Cojuangco
Eduardo "Danding" Murphy Cojuangco Jr. (June 10, 1935 – June 16, 2020) was a Filipino businessman and politician. He was the chairman and CEO of San Miguel Corporation, the largest food and beverage corporation in the Philippines and Southea ...
and brother of another congressman
Mark Cojuangco
Marcos Juan Bruno Oppen Cojuangco (born October 6, 1957) also known as Mark Cojuangco, is a Filipino politician and businessman. He is a former Representative of 5th District of Pangasinan, in the Philippines, he also served as the vice-chairman ...
.
He married former Eat Bulaga! co-host
Rio Diaz
Rio Díaz Cojuangco (; born Rosario Aspillera Díaz; August 14, 1959 – October 4, 2004), was a Filipino beauty queen, television presenter, actress and politician. The sister of former Miss Universe Miss Universe 1969, 1969 Gloria Diaz, Glor ...
, but she died in 2004.
He then married
China Jocson, a media personality and former government official, in October 2021.
He also had a previous relationship with actress
Sharon Cuneta
Sharon Gamboa Cuneta-Pangilinan (born January 6, 1966) is a Filipino actress, singer, and television personality. Prolific in multiple fields of entertainment, she is known for playing dramatic and comedic leading roles in film and television. ...
.
On October 2021, while driving at the
Clark International Speedway race track in Pampanga province, he suffered a
brain aneurysm
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and underwent emergency surgery to which he never recovered. He eventually died on February 22, 2022, although the exact cause of his death was not disclosed.
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References
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Nationalist People's Coalition politicians
2022 deaths
People from Tarlac
Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Tarlac
Cojuangco family
Filipino people of Chinese descent
1963 births