Joseph “Erap”

Ejercito-Estrada
13th President of the Philippines
(1998-2001)
 Joseph Estrada
★ Educational Background

Secondary Education: Ateneo de Manila University

College: MAPUA Institute of Technology

★ gained mass support through his movie career that

FACTS spanned 3 decades

★ was mayor of San Juan for nearly 20 years before
he won a seat in the Philippine Senate in 1988.
★ He was elected vice president in 1992.
★ Won in the 1998 Presidential Election with 39.86%
of the vote.
★ Presidential Term: 30 June 1998 – 20 January 2001
POLITICAL CAREER
 Philippine Clean
1 Air Act of 1999
 Incentives for Regional
Headquarters of
2 Foreign Multinationals
 Retail Trade

3 Liberalization Act
 New General
4 Banking Act
 Electronic
Commerce Act of
5 2000
 New Securities
6 Act
7 Agrarian Reform
 Anti-Crime Task
8 Forces
9 Death Penalty
10 CONCORD
 RP-US Visiting
11 Forces Agreement
CONTROVERSIES
 The Midnight
Cabinet
★ Aprodicio Laquian, Estrada’s chief of staff,
reported that the presidents allegedly had
“midnight drinking sessions” with some

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shady characters as well as some of his
cabinet members.
 Juetenggate
Scandal
★ Estrada was accused as the "lord of all jueteng
lords" for receiving 5 million pesos protection
money from jueteng every month during his

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term of presidency.

★ Accused for accepting over $US8.6 million of

jueteng payoffs as well as a cut of $2.8 million
from provincial tobacco taxes.
3 BW Resources
 Second Envelope
Suppression
★ January 17, 2001 - Jose Velarde Envelope

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★ The Senate voted 11-10 to suppress the
contents of the envelope
★ 2nd EDSA Revolution (EDSA II)
 THE PHILIPPINES’
ECONOMIC STATUS
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