Senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan

The first incumbent senator to launch an independent campaign and win, Senator Kiko Pangilinan is a man of many talents and has had a long history of public service and servant leadership.

Over 20 years ago, he was a student leader, having been elected Chairman of the College of Arts and Letters Student Council in 1985 and Chairman of the UP Diliman Student Council in 1986. Kiko was the first UP Student Regent after Martial Law, in 1986.

Soon after that, with the opening of democratic spaces in the country, Kiko served as the youngest Councilor of the 4th district of Quezon City in 1988 at age 23.

An activist through and through, Kiko established the National Movement of Young Legislators (NMYL) in 1992 and was also a strong proponent for reforms through the ‘90s until Edsa II in 2001.

In 2001, he ran under the People Power Coalition and served as a member of the 12th Congress. He was Senate Majority Leader from February 2004 to November 2008, and ranked among the Top 5 when he won as an independent senator in May 2007.

More than all these, Kiko was also an athlete, a writer, an educator, and a broadcast journalist.

A true advocate for reform and good governance, Senator Kiko Pangilinan has been actively pushing for judicial reforms, strengthening the justice system and the rule of law, protecting and harnessing the youth, strengthening entrepreneurship and incentives for global Filipinos, and many other causes that will drive the Philippines to 21st-century progress.

 

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