Edgar "Egay" Batalla Aglipay (born September 13, 1948) is a Filipino businessman, retired police officer and politician who is the governor-elect of

Cagayan Cagayan ( ), officially the Province of Cagayan (; ; ; isnag language, Isnag: ''Provinsia nga Cagayan''; ivatan language, Ivatan: ''Provinsiya nu Cagayan''; ; ), is a Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines located in the Cag ...

since 2025. He is the current chairman emeritus of DIWA partylist. He was the Chief of the

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(PNP) from August 23, 2004 to March 14, 2005.

Career

Aglipay is a relative of revolutionary hero

Gregorio Aglipay Gregorio Aglipay Cruz y Labayán (; Filipino language, Filipino: ''Gregorio Labayan Aglipay Cruz''; pronounced ; May 5, 1860 – September 1, 1940) was a Filipino former Roman Catholic (term), Roman Catholic Priesthood (Catholic Church), priest ...

. He was a member of the

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class of 1971, and has a Master's of Business Administration (MBA) from the

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. In 1972, as a young lieutenant, he was the platoon leader of the raiding team that captured MV ''Karagatan'' which prevented the

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from getting hold of 1,500 M-14 rifles and other high power firearms. Aglipay served as chief deputy director-general of the

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(NCRPO) from 1998 to 2001. In January 2000, Aglipay relieved and assigned replacements for two police chiefs of the cities of

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and

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, Superintendents Rodolfo Tutaan and Raul Medina respectively, upon the orders of then PNP chief

Panfilo Lacson Panfilo "Ping" Morena Lacson Sr. (; born June 1, 1948) is a Filipino politician who is a senator-elect of the Philippines. He is also a former police general who served as director general of the Philippine National Police (PNP) from 1999 to 2 ...

due to the underwhelming and neglectful performance of their subordinates. Multiple mayors of Metro Manila were infuriated with Aglipay's supposed premptive move, claiming that he made his decision without consulting them first, with

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Mayor

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being the first to call for his ouster while

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, chairman of the

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(MMDA), led the mayors in pushing for his removal. After a closed-door meeting on January 28 between Binay and the mayors and the pair of Aglipay and Lacson, however, they resolved the controversy and allowed Aglipay to retain his post, with

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stating that the issue simply came from a "communication gap". Upon the

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in January 2001, Aglipay and the five metropolitan police district directors joined the

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in withdrawing their support for President

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and going to

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, with Aglipay ordering his subordinates to keep the peace and "protect the people" in the area. Aglipay was elected as

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in the

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Personal life

Nicknamed "Egay", Aglipay is the father of former DSWD undersecretary and Diwa partylist representative Emmeline Yan Aglipay-Villar, who is in turn the wife of senator

Mark Villar Mark Aguilar Villar (, born August 14, 1978) is a Filipino politician and businessman serving as a Senator since 2022. He served in President Rodrigo Duterte's cabinet as the Secretary of Public Works and Highways from 2016 to 2021, and was the ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aglipay, Edgar Living people 1948 births Arroyo administration personnel Ateneo de Manila University alumni Filipino business executives Filipino police chiefs Philippine Constabulary personnel People from Cagayan Philippine Military Academy alumni University of the Philippines alumni Members of the Philippine Independent Church