Niel "Junjun" Causing Tupas Jr. is a

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and

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. He served as a member of the

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representing the 5th District of

Iloilo Iloilo (), officially the Province of Iloilo ( hil, Kapuoran sang Iloilo; krj, Kapuoran kang Iloilo; tl, Lalawigan ng Iloilo), is a province in the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. Its capital is the City of Iloilo, the ...

from 2007 to 2016.

Personal life

He is the husband of Atty. Yvonne Angeli Lee Tupas. He is the son of former Iloilo governor Niel Tupas Sr., brother of Barotac Viejo mayor Niel Tupas III, and brother of Iloilo City councilor Lex Tupas.

Education

Tupas graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 1998. He graduated in the top 20 of his batch. After graduating from law school, he promptly took the bar exams for the first and only time in September 1998 and successfully passed it with a strong general average of 83.05 percent. He obtained his degree in B.A.Political Science from the University of the Philippines, Diliman in 1993 and graduated magna cum laude. He was a consistent university scholar and was a member of the Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society.

Early career

After passing the bar, he worked as an associate lawyer at the Belo Gozon Elma Parel Asuncion & Lucila Law Offices in Makati specializing in litigation and labor law. He was then promoted junior partner before he left the law firm to seek public office in 2004.

Political career

He was elected No. 1 Board Member of the 5th District of Iloilo in 2004. Also in 2004, he was elected President of the National Movement of Young Legislators (NMYL), Western Visayas Chapter (Region VI). He was elected Congressman of the 5th District of Iloilo in 2007 and was re-elected in 2010 and 2013. Tupas served as the Representative of the 5th District of

and a member of the Philippine

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(JBC). He is a member of the Liberal Party under the leadership of former President

Benigno Aquino III Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III (; February 8, 1960 – June 24, 2021), also known as Noynoy Aquino and colloquially as PNoy, was a Filipino politician who served as the 15th president of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016. The son of ...

. He was also the Chairman of the Committee on Justice in the House of Representatives. He was one of the prosecutors in the Impeachment Trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona.

Chief Justice Corona Impeachment

He has been assigned to be lead

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for the

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Chief Justice

Renato Corona Renato Tereso Antonio Coronado Corona (October 15, 1948 – April 29, 2016) was a Filipino judge who was the 23rd chief justice of the Philippines from 2010 to 2012. He served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, ass ...

. Trial started on January 16, 2012, and ended May 29, 2012. An overwhelming majority of the senators voting 20–3, impeaching the former Chief Justice for when he was found guilty of "committing culpable violation of the Constitution and betraying the public trust."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tupas, Niel Jr. 1970 births Living people Lakas–CMD (1991) politicians Lakas–CMD politicians Liberal Party (Philippines) politicians People from Iloilo Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Iloilo University of the Philippines Diliman alumni