Topic summary
Miriam Defensor Santiago 2016 presidential campaign
Incumbent
Political campaigns
- Presidential transition
- Inauguration
- Administration and cabinet (2025 reshuffle)
- Major acts
- Executive orders
- 19th Congress
- 20th Congress
- International trips
- Protests
- Speeches
- Sugar crisis
- Onion crisis
- 2023 airspace closure
- 2024 constitutional reform attempts
- First impeachment of Sara Duterte
- Response to the ICC case
- Flood control projects scandal
- Energy crisis
- Second impeachment of Sara Duterte
- Impeachment efforts
Policies
Early political career
- Liza Araneta Marcos(wife)
- Sandro Marcos(son)
- Vinny Marcos(son)
- Ferdinand Marcos(father)
- Imelda Marcos(mother)
- Imee Marcos(sister)
- Irene Marcos(sister)
The 2016 presidential campaign of Miriam Defensor Santiago, a then-incumbent Senator of the Philippines, was announced on October 13, 2015, at a book signing event. Miriam Defensor-Santiago submitted her certificate of candidacy (COC) on October 16, 2015. She was fifth overall in the election and lost to Rodrigo Duterte. Santiago died of lung cancer five months later.