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KiBam
KiBam, also known as Kiko–Bam, is the umbrella of the opposition-backed candidacies of former senators Kiko Pangilinan and Bam Aquino for the 2025 Philippine Senate election. Led by the Liberal Party, the coalition was formed on November 9, 2024, and includes the Akbayan and Katipunan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino parties. Background Formation At a forum of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) on February 22, 2024, Liberal Party spokesperson and former senator Leila de Lima announced that the party plans to field former senators Bam Aquino and Kiko Pangilinan, as well as human rights lawyer Chel Diokno of the Katipunan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KANP), as its senatorial candidates in the upcoming election. Aquino confirmed his bid for the Senate on May 14 after being appointed as the chairman of KANP. While former vice president and 2022 presidential candidate Leni Robredo was floated as a possible candidate, Robredo ruled out a bid for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Philippine Senate Election
The 2025 Philippine Senate election was the 35th Philippine Senate elections, election of members to the Senate of the Philippines. It was held on May 12, 2025, within the 2025 Philippine general election. The seats of the 12 senators elected in 2019 Philippine Senate election, 2019 were contested in this election. The senators who will be elected in this election will serve until 2031, joining the winners of the 2022 Philippine Senate election, 2022 election to form the Senate's delegation to the 20th Congress of the Philippines, with the senators elected in 2022 serving until 2028. The election was shaped by several key issues, including employment and food security, concerns over the quality of public services such as healthcare, water, and education, and the demand for stronger anti-corruption measures and government accountability. Additionally, the Impeachment of Sara Duterte, impeachment of vice president Sara Duterte and the Arrest of Rodrigo Duterte, arrest of former p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bam Aquino
Paolo Benigno "Bam" Aguirre Aquino IV (, born May 7, 1977) is a Filipino politician who is a senator-elect of the Philippines following the 2025 Philippine Senate election. A member of the Katipunan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KANP), he previously served as a senator from 2013 to 2019 and as deputy Senate minority leader from 2017 to 2019. Born into the prominent Aquino family, he graduated as valedictorian from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1999. Aquino served as chairman of the National Youth Commission from 2003 to 2006 under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. He participated in various documentaries and films and was president of the social enterprise MicroVentures, Inc. Aquino was elected senator in 2013 under Team PNoy, chairing the Committee on Trade, Commerce, and Entrepreneurship, and the Committee on Youth (2013–2016), and later the Committee on Science and Technology (2016–2019). He was the principal sponsor of the Universal Access to Quality Terti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party (Philippines)
The Liberal Party of the Philippines (, LP) is a liberal political party in the Philippines. Founded on January 19, 1946 by Manuel Roxas, Elpidio Quirino, and José Avelino from the breakaway liberal wing of the old Nacionalista, the Liberal remains the second-oldest active political party in the Philippines after the Nacionalista, and the oldest continually active party. The Liberals served as the governing party of four Philippine presidents: Manuel Roxas, Elpidio Quirino, Diosdado Macapagal, and Benigno Aquino III. As a vocal opposition party to the dictatorship of their former member Ferdinand Marcos, it reemerged as a major political party after the People Power Revolution and the establishment of the Fifth Republic. It subsequently served as a senior member of President Corazon Aquino's UNIDO coalition. Upon Corazon Aquino's death in 2009, the party regained popularity, winning the 2010 Philippine presidential election under Benigno Aquino III and returning it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Pangilinan
Francis Pancratius "Kiko" Nepomuceno Pangilinan (; born August 24, 1963) is a Filipino lawyer, politician, and farm owner who is a Senate of the Philippines, senator-elect of the Philippines. He previously served as senator from 2001 to 2013 and from 2016 to 2022 and was the Majority Floor Leader of the Senate of the Philippines, Senate majority floor leader from 2004 to 2008. A graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Law and the Harvard Kennedy School, Pangilinan began his political career as the youngest elected Quezon City Council, councilor of Quezon City, serving from 1988 to 1992, and later founded the National Movement of Young Legislators. He then worked as a television and radio host for ABS-CBN, notably co-hosting the public service program ''Hoy Gising!'' (1993–1997) as a legal expert. During his first two Senate terms, Pangilinan authored landmark legislation such as a Incarceration of children in the Philippines, juvenile justice law that has si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akbayan
The Akbayan Citizens' Action Party, better known as Akbayan (), is a Social democracy, social democratic and Progressivism, progressive List of political parties in the Philippines, political party in the Philippines. The party is noted as a leading member of the progressive movement in the Philippines. The party was founded in 1998 by a variety of progressive and left-leaning Political organisation, political organizations. Currently, the party holds one seat in the Senate of the Philippines, Senate, and three seats in the House of Representatives of the Philippines, House of Representatives as a multi-sectoral Party-list representation in the House of Representatives of the Philippines, party-list. Internationally, the party is a member of the Progressive Alliance and the regional Network of Social Democracy in Asia. History Origins and early years Akbayan traces its roots to the Kaakbay ng Sambayanan, an alliance founded on February 25, 1992, by various Non-government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
