The13th President

of the Philippines
 Joseph Marcelo
“ERAP” Ejercito
Estrada
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
April 19, 1937
Tondo, Manila
FAMAS Hall of Fame in
1981 and 1984
 BACKGROUND
Ateneo de Manila University
Mapúa Institute of Technology
University of Pangasinan
 BACKGROUND
1967-1986 - Ran and won the mayorship of the Manila
suburb of San Juan.
1987-1992 - Elected to the Senate under the Grand
Alliance for Democracy (GAD).
1992-1998 - Elected Vice President of the Philippines on
the National People’s Coalition ticket.
1998-2001 - Estrada was officially declared president by
Congress.
"Erap Para sa Mahirap"
2001
The First President in
Asia to be impeached.
ACHIEVEMENTS
 LAWS AND PROGRAMS
Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999 (Republic Act No. 8749)
Retail Trade Liberalization Act (Republic Act No. 8762)
New General Banking Act (Republic Act No. 8791)
Electronic Commerce Act of 2000 (Republic Act No. 8792)
New Securities Act (Republic Act No. 8799)
Anti-Crime Task Forces
Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999
(Republic Act No. 8749)

Designed to protect and preserve the

environment and ensure the sustainable
development of its natural resources.
 Retail Trade Liberalization Act
(Republic Act No. 8762)
The bill dismantles 40 years of state
protectionism over the country’s retail trade
industry and opens the sector to big foreign
players.
New General Banking Act (Republic
Act No. 8791)
The measure opens up the local banking
industry to foreign players after almost 50
years of having it exclusively reserved and
protected for Filipino nationals.
 Electronic Commerce Act of 2000
(Republic Act No. 8792)
Outlaws computer hacking and provides
opportunities for new businesses emerging
from the Internet-driven New Economy.
 New Securities Act (Republic Act
No. 8799)

This law liberalizes the securities market by

shifting policy from merit regulation to full
disclosure.
 Anti-Crime Task Forces
In 1998, by virtue of Executive Order No.8,
President Estrada created the Presidential Anti-
Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF) with
the objective of minimizing, if not totally
eradicating, car theft and worsening kidnapping
cases in the country.
 ISSUES AND
CONTROVERSIES
ISSUES AND CONTROVERSIES
War between MILF
BW Resources
Impeachment Trial
EDSA II
 War between MILF
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front
(MILF), a Islamic group formed in
1977, seeks to be an independent
Islamic State from the Philippines.
 BW Resources
BW Resources, a small gaming company listed
on the Philippine Stock Exchange and linked to
people close to Estrada, experienced “a
meteoric rise” in its stock price due to suspected
stock price manipulation.
IMPEACHMENT
“bribery, graft and corruption,
betrayal of public trust, and
culpable violation of the
Constitution.”
EDSA II
Philippine citizens overthrow
President Joseph Estrada
(People Power II), 2001
Suspension of the Trial
 The Cardinal called this People
Power II, and within a single day
100,000 had gathered in Quezon
City to protest.
 “human chain”
By the second day the number of
people tripled and
by the third day, there were two
million people in the plaza and
multiple police and military officials
had joined them.
Estrada stated that he would
only step out of office if he
was legally and
constitutionally impeached.
 Vice president Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo assumed
the presidency, as
constitutional law dictated.
 The forced resignation of
President Joseph Estrada truly
was showing of the power of
the people.
SUMMARY OF
GOVERNANCE