Elections are very significant in all Democratic states and countries.

As we all know, it
becomes a part of the Philippines history and defines as the government of many. People were
obliged to exercise their right to vote in order to elect representatives that possesses ability to
govern the country and also for the leaders on whom they believe will serve as the key to
improve the life of the citizens encompasses their territory. As this happens, people who will
participate in the said elections should have the necessary wisdom and education in choosing
the leaders they desired.

Based on the Republic Act 7166 Section 2, election for President, Vice-President, (24)
Senators, all elective Members of the House of Representatives, and all elective provincial
officials will be on the second Monday of May since 1992. Election nowadays puts in a serious
situation where most teenagers play a big part in considering the most appropriate president in
our country. The social media that serves as an instrument to express their voice and opinions
was very beneficial that it influence not only a single person but for a group of people.
Candidates are really exerting effort in competing for the throne and for this year, we have 5 five
major contenders in the presidential race namely Mar Roxas, Jejomar Binay, Grace Poe, Miriam
Santiago, and Rodrigo Duterte. The said candidates were really given focus by setting them on
a live stream debate. It is the first time in the history of Philippines to air presidential debates
were millions of people will watch it. It is essential because through this debate, the citizens
were able to hear and evaluate each candidates answers in responding and implementing their
solutions to the different issues revolving around our country.

These are the 5 candidates for presidency and their backgrounds:

1.)
Name: Jejomar Cabauatan Binay, Sr.
Age: 73 years old
Spouse: Elenita Binay
Children: Nancy Binay, Jejomar Binay Jr., Mar-Len
Abigail Binay-Campos, Joanna Marie Binay, Marita
Angeline Binay
Education:

Binay finished basic education at the Philippine

Normal College Training Department and graduated
from the University of the Philippines preparatory high
school.
 He continued his college at the University of the

Philippines in Diliman with a degree in Political Science and graduated in 1962.

He pursued Law in the same university in 1963 and graduated in 1967; and passed the
bar exams in 1968.
He also took up Masters in Public Administration, Major in Local Government
Management in the University of the Philippines
1980 He also took Master of Laws in the University of Santo Tomas
1990 He took up Masters in National Security Administration in the National Defense
College of the Philippines
He also took up Strategic Business Economic Program in the Center for Research and
Communication
1992 He took up a Non-Resident Command and General Staff Course at the
Command and General Staff College, AFP
1992 He took up the Senior executive Fellows Program at John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University
1992 He achieved Doctor of Public Administration (Honoris Causa) at the Polytechnic
University of the Philippines
1993 He received a Diploma in Land Use Program in the School of Urban Regional
Planning in University of the Philippines
1996 He finished the Top Management Program at the Asian Institute of Management
(Bali, Indonesia)
1997 He also took up Joint Services and Command Staff Course at the Joint Services
and Command Staff College, AFP
1998 He also took up Masters in Management at the Philippine Christian University
2004 He received a Diploma in Environmental and Natural Resources Management at
the University of the Philippines Open University

Career Timeline:

Binay taught at the Philippine College of Commerce (now Polytechnic University of the
Philippines), Philippine Womens University, and St. Scholasticas College
1968: He passed the Bar Exams
He also passed the professional Career Service Examinations, and the General Clerical
Examinations.
1986-1987: Binay was appointed as acting Mayor of Makati, then just a municipality. He
was the first local executive to be appointed after the EDSA Revolution.
He became Governor (Concurrent Capacity) of the Metropolitan Manila Commission but
left in less than a year to start campaigning for the mayoralty race in Makati.
 1988-1998: He was elected Mayor of Makati and served for three consecutive terms.
When Makati was converted into a highly-urbanized city in 1995 by virtue of R.A.7854,
Binay became the first Chief Executive of the City Government of Makati.
1990-1992: While serving as mayor of Makati, he was concurrently chair of the Metro
Manila Authority for two terms under the Aquino administration.
1998-2001: After completing his 3 consecutive terms as Makati mayor, Binay fielded his
wife to take over. While he was still activethough from the sidelinesin the Makati
politics, he returned to MMDA as chair. Under the Estrada administration, he was also
co-chair of the Task Force on
Traffic Improvement and Management for Metro Manila and Suburbs, and was co-chair
of the Pasig Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC).
2001-2007: After breaking the 3-consequtive-terms limit set by law, he returned to
reclaim the post as Mayor of Makati City. He served another 3 consecutive terms.
October 21, 2009: Joseph Estrada-Jejomar Binay tandem for the 2010 elections was
formally announced

2.)
Name: Miriam Defensor Santiago
Age: 70
Spouse: Narciso Santiago
Children: Narciso Santiago III, Alexander
Robert Santiago
Education:

She graduated Elementary as

Valedictorian from La Paz Elementary
School in
1957. In 1961, she graduated as a High School and Valedictorian from the Provincial
National High School.
She graduated Magna Cum Laude from University of the Philippines Visayas in Iloilo
City in 1965 with a degree in Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. She pursued Bachelor
of Laws and graduated Cum Laude from the University of the Philippines in 1969.
In 1976, she graduated from the University of Michigan, USA with a Masters of Laws
and Doctor of the Science of Laws.

In 1995, at the age of fifty, she completed the academic requirements for a Master of
Arts in religious Studies at the Mayhill School of Theology with an average grade of 1.25.
 Career Timeline:
1970-1980: Defensor worked as the special assistant to the secretary for the
Department of Justice.
1971-1974: She worked as a professor of Law for the Trinity College of Quezon City.
1972-1975: She wrote as a columnist for the Philippine Daily Express. From 1979 to
1978 and from 1985 to 1988, she wrote columns for the Philippine Panorama.
1976-1988: She worked as lecturer for the College of Law in the University of the
Philippines.
1977-1979: She worked as a member of the Board of Censors for Motion Pictures. In
1989, she worked as a legal officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, in Geneva, Switzerland, USA until 1980.
1981-1983: She worked as a legal consultant for the University of the Philippines Law
Center. In 1982, she worked as a legal consultant for the Philippine Embassy in
Washington DC, USA.
1983-1987: She worked as the presiding judge for the Regional Trial Court, Branch 106
in Quezon City.
1988-1989: After the EDSA revolution, she worked as a member of the board of
directors for the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Authority. She was also a member of
the board of directors for the Philippine Retirement Authority and a commissioner for the
Commission of Immigration and Deportation.
1988-1991: She worked as a member of the board of directors for the Public Estates
Authority
1989: She worked as a member of the board of directors for the Land Bank of the
Philippines and Secretary for the Department of Agrarian Reform under the Aquino
administration.
1992: She ran as a presidential candidate under the People Reforms party to which she
lost to former President Fidel V. Ramos.
1994: She was an Opinion columnist in Today.
1995-2001: She ran and won as a Senator under her own party, the Peoples Reform
Party. In the Philippine Senate, she authored more than 600 bills and resolutions.
Despite this performance, she lost a re-election bid in 2001.
2004-2010: Defensor-Santiago ran again and joined Arroyos K4 coalition and won.

3.) Name: Rodrigo Duterte

Age: 71
Spouse: Honeylet Avancena
Children: Sara Duterte, Paolo Duterte, Sebastian Z.
Duterte, Veronica A. Duterte
Educational Attainment:

went to Laboon Elementary School in

Maasin, Southern Leyte for a year. Spent his
 remaining elementary days at the Sta. Ana Elementary School in Davao City.
He finished his secondary education at the Holy Cross Academy of Digos in Digos City,
Davao del Sur after being expelled twice from previous schools, including one in Ateneo
de Davao University due to misconduct.
At the tertiary level, he graduated in 1968 as a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science the
Lyceum of the Philippines University in Manila. He also obtained a law degree from San
Beda College of Law, still in Manila, in 1972. In the same year, he passed the bar exam.
While in law school, Duterte shot his fraternity brother Octavio Goco for allegedly saying
racist remarks against Visayans and Goco survived the attack.

Career Timeline:
1977 1979 Special Counsel
1979 1981 Fourth Assistant City Prosecutor
1981 1983 Third Assistant City Prosecutor
1983 1986 Second Assistant City Prosecutor , Member Integrated Bar of the
Philippines, Lecturer on Criminal Law,
Criminal Evidence and Criminal Procedure Police Academy
1986-1988 - Vice Mayor (OIC)
1988 1922 - Elected Mayor
1992-1995 - Re-elected Mayor
1995 1998 - Re-elected Mayor
1998 2001- Elected Congressman
2001 2013- Elected Mayor

4.) Name: Mary Grace Poe Llamanzares

Age: 47
Spouse: Teodoro Misael Vera Llamanzares
Children: Nikka Llamanzares, Brian Llamanzares,
Hannah Llamanzares
Educational Attainment:

She attended elementary school at

Saint Paul College of Pasig and Saint Paul College
of Makati.
In 1982, Poe transferred to
Assumption College San Lorenzo for high school.
Following high school, Poe entered
the University of the Philippines Manila (UP), where
she majored in development studies. She transferred to Boston College, where
she graduated with a degree in political science in 1991.
Career Timeline:

Former MTRCB Chairwoman (2010-2012)

filed 68 bills and 130 resolutions covering issues on social justice, child nutrition,
industrial competitiveness, ecological protection, government modernization and
professionalization, and graft and corruption.
was the first female Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Public Order and
Dangerous Drugs.
She is the Chairman of the Committee on Public Information and Mass Media and the
Sub-Committee on Public Services (Transport Issues)
Vice-Chairman of the Committees on Agriculture and Food and Electoral Reforms and
People's Participation.

5.)

Name: Manuel Araneta Roxas II

Age: 58
Spouse: Korina Sanchez
Children: Paolo Gerardo Z. Roxas
Educational Attainment:

Roxas finished primary education at

the Ateneo de Manila Grade School in 1970
and completed his secondary education at the
Ateneo de Manila High School in 1974.
He graduated with a degree in
Economics at Wharton Business School at the
University of Pennsylvania in 1979.

Career Timeline:

1979- 1986: He was vice president of the New York-based Allen & Company where he
was an investment banker mobilizing venture capital funds for small and medium
enterprises.
1986: During the time of former President Aquino, he was the liaison to the American
business community where he helped organize its discourses to the Philippines.
He was involved in various family-owned firms. He was a director in Kauswagan
Development Corporation,MyapoPrawn Farm Corporation, Northstar Capital Inc. and
Atok Big Wedge Mining Co. He was vice president in Progressive Development
Corporation (real estate, Pizza Hut franchisee).
 1993- 2000: Roxas admitted that he did not have political aspirations early in his life. But
after his brother, Dinggoy, a congressman of the 1st District of Capiz, died of cancer,
Roxas ran and won in the special elections.
1992 2001: He served as Majority Leader of the House of Representatives.
2000- December 2001: He decided to join the cabinet of former President Joseph
Ejercito Estrada as Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). He
resigned in early 2001, during the height of the impeachment trial for the former
president.
2001 2003: He was re-appointed as trade secretary when then Vice President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo took over the post of President Estrada in 2001. His pet projects
included the pre-need and cement industries. He also drummed up his advocacy on
retail prices, garnering the moniker, Mr. Palengke.
2004- Present: He joined the senatorial race. He gained 20 million votes, the highest
ever garnered by a national candidate in any Philippine election. He chaired the Senate
committees on Trade and Industry, and Education. He co-chaired the Congressional
Oversight Committee on the Electronic Commerce Law.

Our group wanted to identify the pulse of the citizen on their chosen president at
St. Joseph Subdivision located in Inosluban, Lipa City. In order to identify it, the group
conducts a survey by asking the following 10 questions to 20 respondents in the area.

1.) (Nakay ate hot fudge po ung original questions, patanong na lang din. Thank you)
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The outcome are as follows:

(Dito na po papasok ung surveys )