Maria Ana Consuelo Abad Santos Madrigal-Valade (born April 26, 1958), better known as Jamby Madrigal, is a Filipina politician and businesswoman. She was elected as a

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in the 2004 elections. After only one term, she ran for the presidency in the 2010 elections and lost.

Early life and career

Jamby Madrigal was born in

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on April 26, 1958, to Antonio Madrigal-López y Paterno (1918–2006) and Amanda Abad Santos y Teopaco. She is the granddaughter of the former

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Chief Justice

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. Her grand uncle – pre-

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Assemblyman Pedro Abad Santos – founded the Socialist Party of the Philippines. Her paternal grandfather was billionaire businessman and Senator Vicente Lopez Madrigal of Ligao,

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. Her aunt,

Pacita Madrigal-Warns Maria Paz Paterno Madrigal (May 4, 1915 – September 12, 2008), commonly known as Pacita Madrigal-Warns (from 1945 to 1956), later Pacita Warns Gonzales (from 1956 until her death), was a Filipina ballet dancer, former beauty queen, and politic ...

, was a Senator during the

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and Magsaysay administrations and was the first administrator of the Social Welfare Administration, the predecessor of today's Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Her late uncle and aunt were former Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Manuel Collantes and heiress Consuelo "Chito" Madrigal. In addition to her work for her numerous foundations, in 2003 she became the spokesperson for the youth-based Kontra Pulitika Movement (KPM), which champions education, protection of the environment, and economic empowerment through livelihood programs. She acted in a movie on the life of

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, the Kapampangan founder of the Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa mga Hapon (

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). Ka Luis was the

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of her grandfather and great uncle, the Abad Santos brothers. In the film, ‘Anak Pawis’, she portrays her grandmother, Amanda Teopaco. Madrigal obtained a bachelor's degree in

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from the

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and a master's in development economics from

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, both in the

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Political career

In October 1999, President

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created the Office of the Presidential Adviser for Children's Affairs and appointed Madrigal to head this office. She later unsuccessfully ran for senator in

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under the

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opposition coalition. She organized the First National Summit for Children in

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on October 26, 2001, where government agencies, local government units, industry leaders and non-government organizations signed a declaration of commitment upholding Child 21 – a framework on which to anchor all action plans and strategies relating to children. She traveled nationwide coordinating the agency's feeding and educational programs. She became concerned over the fate of teachers and school children who were taken hostage by the

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terrorists in 2001. After consultation with the victims themselves, she sought the help of clinical psychologists from Ateneo de Manila University and

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. Madrigal was elected to the Senate in

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and was chairman of four Senate committees: Environment; Youth, Women and Family Relations; Peace, Unification and Reconciliation; and Cultural Communities. In an opposition protest, Madrigal was one of the political leaders who were subjected to the Manila Police water cannons while attending a religious procession on October 14, 2005. Madrigal declared her candidacy for president in the 2010 presidential election as an independent. Madrigal launched many allegations of corruption against fellow Senator and presidential candidate

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. Over the course of the campaign, Madrigal brought out "700 pages of evidence" to prove that Villar had "realigned C-5 (a main Metro Manila thoroughfare) to pass by illar'sreal estate developments so that illarwould be paid for right of way." However, she lost, placing 8th behind Nicanor Perlas. Madrigal sought for Senate comeback in

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as a candidate of the

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administration coalition. She joined the

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and became allies with President Benigno Aquino III, her rival in the 2010 elections. However, she lost, placing 20th.

Post-Senate

On February 23, 2017, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II accused Madrigal and

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Representative Marlyn Alonte-Naguiat, both members of the Liberal Party, for offering a bribe to high-profile inmates to recant their testimony against Senator Leila de Lima in connection to the New Bilibid Prison drug trafficking scandal. Then abroad, Madrigal denied the accusation, saying it was "baseless, malicious and outright lies." She said that she is of no relation and didn't speak to a certain Lalaine Madrigal Martinez (wife of convicted kidnapper and drug lord Noel Martinez), whom she had allegedly approached to offer the bribe. Nevertheless, netizens criticized Aguirre for simply accusing others without any evidences.

Personal life

Madrigal married Frenchman Eric Jean Claude Dudoignon Valade on December 7, 2002, at the Calatagan,

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farm estate of her aunt, Doña Consuelo "Chito" Madrigal-Collantes. In May 2008, she formally filed court pleadings to contest the validity of the

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of Madrigal-Collantes, who died in March of that year.

References

External links

Jamby's Official Website

Jamby's Senate BioWill you vote for Jamby Madrigal for President?
- 2010 Philippines Election Poll

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