Luis "Joey" Chua Uy (born March 15, 1963) is a Filipino politician who is the representative-elect of Manila's sixth district. Before being elected to Congress, he had served as a member of the Manila City Council for the same district from 2022 and previously from 2004 to 2013.

Early life and career

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

, when he was elected to the Manila City Council as a member for the sixth district, a seat he would hold until 2013, being re-elected in

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

and in

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

elections. He left the post in 2013 upon reaching the term limit. He would return to the local legislature in

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

as part of a wider landslide victory of the Asenso Manileño, capped by the election of

Honey Lacuna Maria Sheilah "Honey" Honrado Lacuna-Pangan (born May 6, 1965) is a Filipina physician and politician who has served as the 24th and current mayor of Manila, the capital city of the Philippines, since 2022. The first woman to serve as the city ...

as mayor. In August 2024, Uy became one of the 16 members of the Asenso bloc in the 12th City Council to leave the party after 19 councilors convened on July 23 when the city government declared all work to be suspended in response to the impact of Typhoon Carina. Having allied with former mayor Isko Moreno following his exit, Uy was sworn in as a member of Aksyon Demokratiko on September 9. The Moreno-aligned councilors later filed a lawsuit over the incident, condemning the session as "illegal and secret", and accused that

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83 million city council funds were transferred to the office of the mayor during the meeting, a claim that the plaintiffs would refute and claimed transparency with the session having been live-streamed. In September 2024, during tensions over proceedings on the city budget, Uy shoved Councilor Fog Abante to shield his ally, 4th district Councilor Joel T. Villanueva.

House of Representatives (from 2025)

Election

While Uy was eligible for another term as councilor, he challenged incumbent representative Benny Abante for his seat, running under Moreno's Yorme's Choice ticket. He was endorsed by Vice President Sara Duterte, who later appeared in a campaign rally in support of his campaign. On May 12, 2025, Uy narrowly defeated Abante by a margin of three thousand votes.

Tenure

Uy will be assume his post as a member of the 20th Congress on June 30, 2025.

Electoral history

References

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