Presidential Candidates for 2022 Election
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Ferdinand Romualdez “BongBong” Marcos Jr.
Qualifications:
Years of service in government: 24 years
Maria Leonor “Leni” Santo Tomas Gerona
Years of service in government: 19 years
Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso
Qualifications:
Years of service in government: 18 years
Emmanuel Dapidran “Manny” Pacquiao Sr.
Qualifications:
Years of service in government: 11 years
Leody De Guzman
Qualifications:
Years of service in government: 0 year
(Activist)
Vol. 1
Who will make the Philippines a greater country?
• In 1992 to 1995 Marcos was elected as
representative of the second district of Ilocos Norte
to the Philippine House of Representatives.
• He was again elected as Governor of Ilocos
Norte in 1998, he served for three consecutive
terms ending in 2007.
• He made a second attempt for the Senate in
2010, this time he won, 2010 to 2016.
Qualifications:
• A Filipina lawyer, social activist, politician, and the
14th vice president of the Philippines.
• She served as the representative of Camarines
Sur’s 3rd district from 2013 to 2016.
• Robredo served in the Public Attorney's Office.
From 1998 to 2008. In the year 2012.
• He ran for councilor in 1998 and was elected for
three consecutive terms as a member of the Manila
City Council.
• In 2007, he was elected Vice Mayor of Manila, he
was re-elected in 2010. He was term-limited vice-
mayor and after that he ran for senator, but he didn’t
win in the 2016 elections.
• Served in the Duterte cabinet as a Social Welfare
undersecretary for a few months before being
elected as mayor of Manila in 2019.
• In May 2010, Pacquiao was elected to the House
of Representatives in the 15th Congress of the
Philippines.
• In 2013 he was re-elected to the 16th Congress of
the Philippines. On October 5, 2015, Pacquiao
formally declared that he was running for senator.
• On May 19, 2016, Pacquiao was formally elected
as a senator by the Commission on Elections.
• He was the former president and currently the
chairperson of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang
Pilipino (BMP), a socialist federation of militant trade
unions.
• In 1996, he was elected as general secretary,
serving until 2005.
• Since 2018, De Guzman has been chairman of
BMP.
Accomplishments:
• He spearheaded the Ilocos Norte Development plan in addition to
setting up the project office.
• He enhanced the basic services such as transportation, power, water,
and different processing facilities for diverse agricultural crops were
built.
• He was the author of 29 House bills and co-author of 90 more.
• The important pieces of legislation he authored was Republic Act No.
9522. Promoted the Republic Act No. 9502 (Universally Accessible
Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act).
Accomplishments:
• She was awarded by the Thai government for her advocacy in women
empowerment and gender equality.
• In its first year of operation, her anti-poverty initiative assisted 83,707
households across the country. The Senate increased the Office of the
Vice President's budget for 2018 in October 2017 (OVP) by ₱20 million.
Accomplishments:
• Moreno oversaw the cleaning of congested and besmirched streets
of Manila and ordered the clearing of city streets from ambulant
vendors to address the city’s congestion problem and waste
management.
• He exposed derelict heritage sites in the city. Illegally built
infrastructures, including government edifices which impedes the
movement of vehicles.
• Moreno signed Executive Order No. 43 mandating all 896 barangays
and frontline City Hall offices to conduct a weekly clean-up drive.
Accomplishments:
• He helped persecute senator and Duterte critic Leila de Lima. He
defended Paolo Duterte, the President’s son, from allegations of illegal
drug trafficking.
• He supports the return of the death penalty, a Duterte campaign
promise.
• The only notable action he has undertaken for marginalized groups in
the country has been to lend his support to labor groups call for
national wage increases.
Accomplishments:
• In the 2019 elections, De Guzman positioned himself as a member of
the labor opposition within the Labor Win coalition.
• He ran against endo contractualization, the abolition of the Mining Act
of 1995, and the suspension of the tax system under the TRAIN law.