COng. Lito Atienza.pptx

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1. Lito Atienza 18 th Congress of the Philippines

2. Lito Atienza Jose  " Lito "  Livioko Atienza Jr.  ( Tagalog  pronunciation:  [ ɐˈtijɛnsa ] ; born August 10, 1941) is a Filipino politician. He served as a  Party-list   Representative  for  Buhay  from 2013 to 2022, and was a  House Deputy Speaker  from 2020 to 2022. He served as the  Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources  from 2007 to 2009 in the Administration of President  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo , and was 24th  Mayor of Manila  for three consecutive terms from 1998 to 2007. He unsuccessfully ran for  vice president of the Philippines  in the  2022 elections  as the running mate of Senator  Manny Pacquiao . He has been hosting the drama  anthology television series   Maynila  on  GMA Network  since 1998.

3. Early life and career Atienza was born on August 10, 1941 in the  San Andres Bukid  district of Manila, four months before the outbreak of  World War II . Atienza's father, Jose J. Atienza Sr., was a distinguished public servant to three  Philippine presidents . An uncle,  Hermenegildo Atienza , was a World War II guerrilla leader and after the war was appointed Military Mayor of Manila by Gen. Douglas MacArthur himself and one of the founders of the  Liberal Party  in 1946. Another uncle, Rigoberto Atienza, a World War II veteran, a victim of the Bataan Death March and former Philippine Army commanding general, became Chief of Staff of the Philippine Armed Forces in the 1960s during the term of President  Diosdado Macapagal . A third uncle, Arturo, became a renowned lawyer. The four brothers were all members of the Hunters resistance against the Japanese occupation during World War II.

4. He took up his primary and secondary education from  Ateneo de Manila University 's Basic Education Unit and completed a  Bachelor's Degree  in  Architecture  from the  University of Santo Tomas . His interest and degree in architecture proved useful in rehabilitating and renewing the City of Manila, which had fallen to decay over years of unmanaged growth in population and the lack of an urban planning & community development.

5. Personal life He is married to Evelina Ilagan with six children, including TV host  Kim Atienza , athlete-turned newscaster  Ali Atienza , and  Manila 3rd district  councilor Maile Atienza.

6. Political career Atienza started his political career in 1968 when he organized the  Democratic Youth Movement . He was one of those who survived the  Plaza Miranda bombing  in 1971. After the 1971 elections, Atienza was hired by then Manila Mayor  Ramon Bagatsing  as chief information officer at the City Hall. He worked under Mayor Bagatsing for almost ten years.

7. During Martial Law, Atienza was arrested twice for exposing human rights abuses under the  dictatorship regime of  President  Ferdinand Marcos . He remained with the opposition even if he was on constant threat of incarceration for opposing Marcos. Atienza was first elected as Member of  Parliament  in the then  At-large Congressional District of Manila  under the Batasang Pambansa in 1984 and served until Marcos was peacefully ousted during the  People Power Revolution  of 1986.

8. Under the  administration  of President  Corazon Aquino , Atienza was appointed general manager of the  National Housing Authority (Philippines)  in 1988 and he promoted low-cost housing for teachers and police officers.

9. Together with former Manila police general  Alfredo Lim  running for mayor, Atienza ran for vice-mayor of Manila. The two defeated the incumbent slate of then-Mayor  Gemiliano Lopez Jr.  The tandem won a second term in 1995. When Lim ran for President of the Philippines in 1998, Atienza was elected mayor and took his oath of office on June 24, 1998. Atienza was again re-elected in 2001 and finally in 2004. During his term as mayor, numerous heritage buildings in Manila were demolished, notably the  Jai Alai Building , which used to be the best  Art Deco  building in all of  Asia  before its demolition.

10. The  Supreme Court  ruled on April 17, 2007, that  Franklin Drilon  was the real president of the  Liberal Party  and not Atienza and has approved the Daza -Drilon Amendments to the LP's Charter. It also ruled that all certificates of nomination signed by Atienza are worthless unless they moved to another political party like  Batangas  Governor  Armando Sanchez  and  Manny Pacquiao , who moved to  KAMPI , and  Mike Defensor , who moved to  Lakas-CMD , in February 2007. Voting 9–5, the court said the amended Salonga Constitution extended Drilon's term to November 2007. On July 16, 2007, the Supreme Court dismissed with finality a motion for consideration filed by Atienza ( en banc resolution dated July 5, 2007). COMELEC earlier ruled that Drilon's term as LP president has already expired and called for the holding of elections to end the leadership vacuum in the country's oldest political party. The ruling came after the poll body invalidated the so-called "rump elections" of LP leaders in March 2006

11. On November 26, 2007, at Club Filipino,  Greenhills , San Juan , LP National Executive Council officials resolved to appoint Senator  Mar Roxas  as president of the  Liberal Party (Philippines) .  Corazon Aquino  and  Jovito Salonga ,  inter alia , signed the resolution. Roxas is to unite the two LP factions, and set the stage for his presidential campaign in the 2010 election. [4]  Atienza, however, questioned Roxas ' appointment, attacking the composition of Liberal Party's National Executive Council (NECO) and alleged that the  Supreme Court of the Philippines ' June 5 resolution ordered the LP leadership's status quo maintenance.

12. In February 2007, Atienza formally and officially announced that his second son, the Presidential Adviser on Youth Affairs and Manila's Chair of the Inner-City Development Committee,  Arnold Atienza , would run for mayor of the city on May 14, 2007. Arnold Atienza lost the mayoralty race to Sen. Alfredo Lim, who was also a former mayor

13. Environment Secretary Atienza, a staunch supporter of President  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo , was named Environment Secretary on July 18, 2007, replacing  Angelo Reyes , who was moved to the Department of Energy, after incumbent Raphael Lotilla resigned. Atienza's appointment came as a shock to environmental groups, who had dubbed him as the "butcher of Arroceros ." As Manila mayor, Atienza in 2003 enraged environmentalists when he ordered the closure of the  Arroceros Forest Park  to give way to the building of an education office and a teacher's dormitory, sparking a lawsuit. The Kalikasan People's Network said that Atienza had no moral authority to be at the helm of the DENR because he had "neither had sterling qualifications nor a clean track record of protecting the environment as former Manila Mayor."