Manny Villar's Advantages and disadvantages to the Philippines

• ADVANTAGES

Destinctions:
Most outstanding UP alumnus(1991)
Most outstanding CPA by the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants(1990)
Agora Award for outstanding Achievements in Marketing Management(1989)
Ten outstanding Young Men by the Philippine Jaycees(1986)
Political highlights:
Senator(2001-present)
Senate President(2006-2008)
Speaker of the house of the house of the Pepresentatives(1998-2000)
Sponsored Laws:
RA 9178 Barangay Micro business Enterprises Act
RA 9189 Overseaes Absentee Voting Act
RA 9208 Anti-Trafficking of Persons Act
RA 9257 An Act Granting Additional benefits and Privileges to Senior Citizens
RA 9262 Anti- Violence Against Women and their Children Act
Plataforms:

Ang Bayan higit sa lahat!,On agriculture and rural development,On agrarian reform,On the rights of the working people,On basic social services,On the environment and disaster response,On good governance and public accountability,On human rights and justice,On foreign relations and the Visiting Forces Agreement.

• DISADVANTAGES

THE C-5 teleserye with Senator Manny Villar as the lead actor remains a spectacular top rated show featuring the Philippine Senate at its worst performance. Despite its tragic outcome for the Senate, the C-5 scam brought something good for the country – it exposed the dark side of ‘sipag at tiyaga.’

For the first time, the Filipino people got to know the other side of Manny Villar’s politics. In the last two years, Villar flooded the country through all forms of media with advertisements trumpeting the good side of ‘sipag at tiyaga’, his banner slogan. Now, the nation got the taste of its dark side.

First casualty of the fall-out from the C-5 scandal is the senate as an institution. The spectacle of senators engaged in trash talk during the deliberation of Committee Report No. 780 of the Committee of the Whole (COW) was a low point for the august body. Filipinos cringed in shame at the sight of the top leaders of the land squabbling like immature kids using gutter language and personally attacking each other. The source of the brawl was the report that finds Villar to have committed unethical conduct and violated provisions of the Constitution in relation to the C-5 extension road project, recommending his censure.

Allies of Villar tried every trick in the book to deflect the damage of the report on his candidacy. They successfully lured proponents of the report in verbal tussle over personal matters by insulting them. Thus instead of focusing on the contents of the report, the session degenerated into a personal mayhem. Good for their patron, terribly bad for the Senate.

The dark side of ‘sipag at tiyaga’ was incisively exposed by feisty Inquirer columnist Solita Collas-Monsod in her column last week. Mareng Winnie as she is popularly known counted six tries and six flops of Villar as he attempted to foil the Senate investigation on C-5 scam.

All about manny Villar

Whole Name:
Manuel "Manny" Villar
Birthdate:
December 13,1949
Hometown:
Moriones, Tondo
Spouse:
Cynthia Villar
Children:
Camille, mark and Paolo Villar



EDUCATION:
Masters:University of the Philippines
(Master of Arts in Business Administration)
College: University of the Philippines
(Bachelor of Arts In Business Administration)
Primary:Holy Child Catholic School

POLITICAL PARTY:
Nationalista Party(2003-present)
Independent(2000-2003
LAMP (1998-2000)
Lakas-NUCD(1992-1998)

Villar was born to a poor family in Tondo, an impoverished and densely populated district of Manila. After graduating from the Uni he worked as an accountant and financial analyst, then launched a highly successful business in real estate. The number of homes built by Villar's companies has totaled to over 200,000 units, and his business career made him one of the country's wealthiest persons.

Villar entered politics in 1992 when he was elected Congressman representing the district of Las- Piñas, Muntinlupa, and later became Speaker of the house of Representatives. As Speaker, he presided over the impeachment of President Joseph Estrada by the House of Representatives in 2000. In 2001 he was elected Senator, and served as Senate President from 2006 to 2008.