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List of political families in the Philippines

The following is a list of notable political families of the Philippines and their areas of influence. Names in bold indicate the individual was/is a president of the Philippines.

The Philippine political arena is mainly arranged and operated by families or alliances of families, rather than being organized around political parties.

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Abad family — Batanes

Abad Santos family — San Fernando and Angeles, Pampanga

  • José Abad Santos – acting president of the Philippines (1942); chief justice (1941–1942); associate justice (1936–1941); secretary of justice (1922–1923, 1928–1932, 1938–1941), acting secretary of finance (1941–1942)
    • Pedro Abad Santos – member of the San Fernando municipal council (1910–1912); member of the House of Representatives for Pampanga (1916–1922)
      • Vicente Abad Santos, nephew of José and Pedro – associate justice (1979–1986); member of the Interim Batasang Pambansa from Region III (1978–1984), secretary and minister of justice (1970–1979)
      • Manuel D. Abad Santos, nephew of José and Pedro – mayor of Angeles City (1952–1959)
      • Antonio A. Abad Santos, son of Manuel – mayor of Angeles City (1988–1992)

Abalos family — Mandaluyong

  • Benjamin Abalos Sr. – mayor of Mandaluyong (1986–1987, 1988–1998, 2022–present), chairman of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority(2001–2002), chairman of the Commission on Elections (2002–2007)
  • Arsenio Abalos, brother of Benjamin Sr. – barangay captain of Hagdang Bato Itaas, Mandaluyong; member of the Mandaluyong city council

Abaya family — Cavite

Abubakar family — Sulu Archipelago, ARMM, and Zamboanga City

Abueg family — Cavite, Palawan, Zambales

  • Catalino P. Abueg - mayor of Rosario, Cavite (1895-1900)
  • Moises "Ojing" N. Abueg - nephew of Catalino, treasurer of Subic, Zambales (1899), Katipunero, mayor of Masinloc, Zambales
    • Alfredo M. Abueg Sr. - son of Moises, governor of Palawan (1946-1951, 1955-1
  • When she married Eugenio Puyat,



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    VENETIAN ENCOUNTER
    by Mar V. Puatu

    Quick!" Albert takes his Nikon and aims it at the beauteous, be-gowned Duchessa of Venice. He pushes me in front of the costumed beauty against the "Bridge of Sighs" overlooking the Grand Canal flowing inside the Venetian Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas.


    The elegant Grand Dame has just finished singing La Donna e’Mobile. She curtsies to the meager crowd and smiles. In a noble pose, she lets me come closer, takes my good arm and wraps it round her small waist. Albert snaps the picture, and thanks her.

    "Buona sera." The woman winks and taps her fan on my breast.

    "Thank you." I catch the fan, and give the gentle hand that holds it a light kiss. When I look at her face, I see the smiling image of a woman from Ukraine, a woman who married someone else because I missed the opportunity to say, "Marry me."

    "Have a good time." The Venetian woman feigns a blush. She liberates her dainty mouth and out comes a Puccini aria, the melody wafting through Saint Mark’s Piazza. Soon other patrons gather around her. She wades through the crowd, luring them to the shopping boutiques, the art shops, and eventually to the casino. The scarcity of the gambling group gives the piazza a somber mood. Outside, the half-empty streets of Las Vegas with the American flags displayed on every building lend a mourning tone to what should have been a festive mood.

    Albert finds a table at the Canaletto Café near the Grand Canal. He orders espresso for both of us, and we sip our drink in silence. A heavy frown covers his face; a sigh escapes his lips.

    "Eva’s safe." He grinds his teeth. "She and our daughter were making a deposit at the Bank of America branch 10 blocks away from the World Trade Building when the planes crashed."

    "Thank God." I touch my old friend’s shoulder. The attack on this bastion of capitalism, as well as the attack
    CEBU, Philippines - Even though I'd read that Malaysia has the third largest economy in the ASEAN countries and is the nineteenth largest in the world, I was flabbergasted to see how developed it actually is; more so than Vietnam or the Philippines, more on par with Singapore and Hong Kong. My husband Lauren, our friend Doug, and I were there last April. Malaysia has all the trappings of a First World country: excellent infrastructure, social services to its people, low crime rate, beautiful sites, all of which have made Malaysia a popular tourist spot.

    Our first stop was Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur or KL as it is popularly called.
    As our plane approached KL, I could see stretches of land with what looked like coconut trees. Closer, I realized these were palm trees, the incredible number, which was both impressive and disturbing. North, South, East West, as far as your eyes could see, there were palm trees. It made me wonder what sort of environmental repercussions this monocrop could cause. We would later learn that palm oil has helped make Malaysia wealthy and provide its people with a fairly high standard of living. On the other hand, because of palm trees, forests have been shrinking, displacing wild animals from the forests and jungles. Elephants were among those displaced from their natural habitat.

    These Oil Palm Trees were planted in the 1960s by the Malaysian government for its edible fats and oil. At the time, rubber and tin had ceased being Malaysia's top-income products, thus the cultivation of these palm trees that originally came from West Africa. Palm oil is one of the top major exports of Malaysia, along with electronic equipment, petroleum and liquefied natural gas, wood and wood products, rubber and textiles.
    KL is a modern city. What I liked most was the Lake Garden Park, 92 hectares of it, located in the heart of the city and which acts as the green lung to about 4 million people. KL was carved out of a jungle, and fortuna
  • Poems by Nina Estrada Puyat.

    • Wear and Tear: Make My Day Book-21

    Descriere: TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword: The Wonder of my Father, by Rosanna L. Henares Angeles - p7 PERSONALITIES - p8 Chapter I. LARRY'S ANGELS - p8 1. Cleopatra and the Dance of the Seven Veils - p8 2. Vicki the Drill Master - p9 3. The Royal Family of Makati Med - p11 4. To be gone, sadly missed and long remembered - p12 5. Testimonial for Vicky, for her application to work abroad - p13 6. How to Lose Weight - p15 7. A closure to all these and heaven too - p17 Chapter II: NINOY AQUINO - p18 1. If Ninoy Were President: Solving The Economic Crisis - p18 Ninoy Reincarnated - p19 Playing With Loaded Dice - p19 Self-Reliance - p20 The Production Base - p21 Democratizing Our Economy - p22 The Nationalist Alternative - p23 2. Was Ninoy's Death A Historical Necessity? - p24 An Exxagerated Life - p24 In The Center Of History - p25 In The Embrace Of Posterity - p26 The Historical Necessity - p27 The Magnificent Failure - p27 3. Ninoy's Symphony Of Yellow Ribbons - p28 The Prodigal Lover - p28 Part Of History - p29 Out Of A Fevered Dream - p29 The Song of Ninoy, with lyrics by Larry Henares - p30 Chapter III. NINA ESTRADA PUYAT - p30 1. A New Star Shines In The Heavens: Eulogy for Nina - p30 Chapter IV: ALEJANDRO LICHAUCO: Ding's Nationalist Economics - p33 Part One: The truth shall feed us too - p33 Part Two: Enriquito Zobel cannot eat steel - p34 Part Three: Ding almost knocked out Christian Monsod - p36 Part Four: Adam Smith is obsolete like Ptolemy - p38 Part Five: Like Noli-Fili, a Book for all Filipinos - p39 Chapter V: DANTE SILVERIO - p41 Part 1. Dante Silverio, the great Sportsman - p41 Part 2. Dante Silverio and his Cinderella team - p42 Part 3. Basketball's shame, the gamblers and the cheats - p43 Chapter VI: EUGENE TAN - p45 Part One: Supreme Court justices may err like humans - p45 Part Two: Fire away, Eugene Tan, we are your Equalizer - p46 Part Three: Eugene lost his eye and his justice crusade - p48 A Requiem: Cyclops

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