To Filipinos: Who Would be Your Presidentiable Bet?

Time seems to run fast.  It's only a month's time and the Philippine presidential race will be held.  The people will also choose a vice-president and twelve (12) senators.

This hub is an enumeration of presidentiables to choose from.  They are listed in alphabetical order (according to surname) and a short information is made available.

The list is made not to commend nor discredit any of the candidate but to provide a clue that could help a voter or a hubber who comes across this hub.

• standard bearer of the Liberal Party
• born February 8, 1960
• graduate of Ateneo de Manila University
  
• Senator of the Philippines
• he was elected to the Senate of the 14th Congress of the Philippines in 2007
  
• he was elected to the House of Representatives as Representative of the 2nd district of Tarlac province in the 11th Congress of the Philippines in 1989
  
• the only son of former senator Benigno Aquino, Jr and President Corazon Aquino
  

• presidential candidate of the Ang Kapatiran Party
• a Philippine councilor in Olongapo City
• he studied in elementary in Ateneo de Manila University, and graduated in La Salle Greenhills
• finished his Bachelor of Arts in Theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, which is considered as one of the most orthodox Catholic Universities in the United States
• finished his post-graduate studies in Public Administration from the University of the Philippines
• finished his law degree at Saint Louis University in Baguio CIty
• a nephew of Richard Gordon
  

• standard bearer of PMP
• born April 19, 1937 as Jose Marcelo Ejercito
  
• 13th President of the Philippines from 1998 until his ouster in the 2001 EDSA Revolution
  
• finished his primary studies at the Ateneo de Manila University, but was expelled in his sophomore year of high school for unruly behavior
• went to Mapua Institute of Technology to continue schooling with an engineering course, but dropped out from studies altogether two years later
• he was a film actor and adopted a screen name Joseph Estrada
• became the Mayor of San Juan
  
• became a Senator in 1987
• became the Vice President in 1992
  

• standard bearer of Bagumbayan VNP
• completed his elementary education at the Colegio de san Juan de Letran in Manila in 1954
• finished his secondary education in in 1962 at the Ateneo de Manila University
• has a degree in Bachelor of Arts, major in History and Government, 1966
• has a degree in Bachelor of Laws at the University of the Philippines College of Law, 1975
• he was elected as the delegate of the first district of Zambales to the 1971 Constitutional Convention, which drafted the 1973 Constitution of the Philippines. He was the youngest delegate in the said convention in 1971
• he was elected Mayor of Olongapo City in 1986
• one of the two local executives who refused to vacate their positions after the government reorganization by President Corazon Aquino
• in 1991, Gordon led a nationwide rally for the retention of the U.S. Bases in the Philippines
• in 1992, Gordon was appointed as the chairman of the SBMA by President Corazon Aquino
• became a Senator in 2004
  

• an independent candidate
• born on April 26, 1958 in Manila
• granddaughter of the former Supreme Court Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos
• in 1999, became head of the Office of the Presidential Adviser for Children's Affairs
• on October 26, 2000, organized the First National Summit for Children
• currently the chairperson of four Senate committees: Committee on Environment, Committee on Youth, Women and Family Relations, Committee on Peace, Unification and Reconciliation, and the Committee on Cultural Communities

• an independent candidate
• finished his elementary education at the Ateneo de Manila University in 1964
• Athlete of the Year and the recipient of the Silver Medal of the school's Math and Science Club in 1968 at the Ateneo de Manila University when he was in high school
• graduated Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, major in Agronomy and minor in Agricultural Economics at the Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental
• involved in the opposition of the Bataan nuclear power plant under the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos
• one of the key organizers of a university-wide education reform movement that resulted in changes in university policies
• founded the first ecological society in the Philippines
• after graduation in college, he co-organized a successful large scale global campaign, the first of its kind during his time, to halt 12 nuclear plants in the Philippines
• become a technical adviser to the Presidential Commission on the Philippine Nuclear Power Plant, Office of the President of the Philippines, where he was instrumental in stopping the operation of the fully constructed and operational Bataan Nuclear Power Plant
• mobilized and headed a national effort that resulted in the banning of 32 hazardous pesticide formulations in the Philippines
• pioneered the introduction of large scale commercial organic and biodynamic agriculture in many provinces in the Philippines

• standard bearer of Lakas Kampi CMD
• born June 14, 1964
• completed his grade school and high school at Xavier School
• Bachelor's Degree in Commerce from De La Salle University in 1984
• completed his law studies at the University of the Philippines in 1989 where he was awarded the Dean's Medal for Academic Excellence
• topped the Philippine Bar exams in 1989
• went to the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts for his Master of Laws, completed it in 1997
• former Secretary of National Defense of the Philippines from August, 2007 to November 15, 2009
• a member of the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2007

• standard bearer of Bangon Pilipinas
• a religious and a political leader in the Philippines
• founder and leader of Jesus is Lord Church
• was a presidential candidate in 2004 but lost to incumbent President Gloria Arroyo
• owner and chairman of ZOE Broadcasting Network, a commercial TV station currently operated by GMA Network through Quality TeleVision (QTV)

• Nacionalista Party standard bearer
• born December 13, 1949
• a Filipino businessman and politician
• currently a Philippine Senator
• 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
• in 1992 he was elected Congressman representing the district of Las Pinas-Muntinlupa
• became Speaker of the House of Representatives
• 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

Philippine presidential election, 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_presidential_election,_2010