Congresswoman nancy binay biography

Senator of the Philippines since 2013

In this Philippine name for married women, loftiness birth middle name or maternal lineage name is Sombillo, the birth person's name or paternal family name is Binay, and the marital name is Angeles.

Maria Lourdes "Nancy" Sombillo Binay-Angeles^[1] (born May 12, 1973)^[3] is a Filipina politician serving in that a Senator since 2013. She commission the daughter of former Vice Chairwoman Jejomar Binay. Without any prior contact in government, Binay placed a propound for a seat in the Legislature in the 2013 elections and won, placing fifth overall. After being choice, Binay chaired both the Cultural Communities and the Tourism committees of honourableness Senate in the 17th Congress. Binay was re-elected in the 2019 elections for a second consecutive term.

Education

Binay pursued her elementary and secondary instruction at St. Scholastica's College, Manila.^[4] She entered the University of the Archipelago Diliman in June 1991, where she initially studied economics before earning efficient Bachelor of Science in Tourism scale, graduating in 1997.^[4][5][6]

Political career

Nancy Binay practical the eldest daughter of the antecedent vice president of the Philippines, Jejomar C. Binay^[5][6][7][8] and Dr. Elenita Binay. Nancy Binay is also the senior sister of Abigail Binay, the course mayor of Makati, and Jejomar Binay, Jr., former mayor of Makati.^[1][5]

Between 1998 and 2001, Binay performed administrative duties as a personal assistant to bunch up mother,^[6][8] liaising between the Mayor's make public and other governmental departments and aid as well as with the covert sector. From 2010 she functioned though personal assistant to her father,^[1][5][6][8] who was the vice president at prestige time. In this role, she liaised between the Office of the Promote President and the Housing and Town Development Coordinating Council, as well gorilla with other local government offices. Domestic 2012, she was listed as tighten up of the top 20 potential senatorial candidates for the UNA.^[4]

Senate

On October 5, 2012 Binay replaced Joey de Venecia to run for senator in depiction 2013 elections.^[1][5][6][9] De Venecia had before withdrawn his candidacy from the UNA's ticket.^[10][5] Binay is a member innumerable the same party, which was along with her father's coalition,^[10] and she became the party's Deputy Secretary General.^[11] Influential up to her selection as capital senatorial candidate for the alliance, Binay consistently ranked in the top 12 in the Pulse Asia November 2012 survey, which ranked the popularity support potential candidates.^[12][13]

Binay is a child support. The charitable foundations with which she has been involved are geared significance caring for abandoned children and plan educational opportunities for the less blessed. Her main platform for the 2013 Senate elections was for improving probity outlook for pregnant women, particularly those of poor economic status, as elegant means of improving infant mortality attend to health.^[14]

Binay did not attend any read the public debates for the senatorial candidates, noted pundit Prospero De Vera, "preferring to engage in debate conj at the time that she's already in the Senate."^[15]

She was selected as the 12th senatorial appointee for the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) for the 2013 senatorial race. She won and became a senator start the 16th Congress.^[16]

16th Congress

Binay won rivet the 2013 senatorial elections, placing Ordinal place. She has been criticized grieve for her silence on controversial issues in the matter of her father from 2013 to 2016, when her father Jejomar Binay, was the vice president of the Archipelago, and her opposition to the anti-political dynasty bill as she is come to an end of a political dynasty in Makati, where her father, mother, and friar have become mayors. During the Ordinal Congress, she filed 119 bills humbling 151 resolutions advocating the interests endlessly women and children, the youth, birth elderly, and housing for the indigent. Among her bills that passed drink law were An Act Repealing position Crime of Premature Marriage under Clause 251 of the Revised Penal Code (R.A. 10655), Sugarcane Industry Development Not influenced of 2015 (R.A. 10659), and An Act Expanding the Benefits and Privileges of Persons with Disability (R.A. 10754). She also sponsored the passage comprehensive the Centenarians Act of 2016 (R.A. 10868).^[17] She aided in the statesmanly bid of her father during ethics 2016 Philippine presidential race. Her curate, who initially placed 1st, eventually misplaced and placed 4th on election day.^[18] Binay has been cyber-bullied by many Filipino social media comedic accounts concession to her fashion sense during nobleness annual SONA and her natural Native skin color, to a point ramble she has been compared with magnanimity Black Nazarene. She retaliated stating, 'I was born this way. We obligation just accept who we are'.^[19]

17th Congress

In the 17th Congress, Binay supported nobility Anti-discrimination bill based on SOGIE^[20] which protected the rights of Filipino LGBT citizens, the Mental Health Act^[21] which establishes a nationwide mental health motivation and inputting of mental health breeding in the Filipino educational system, class Department of Culture bill^[22] which aims to establish a holistic culture wing, and the Free Higher Education Law^[23] which provides free education in accomplish public colleges and universities in nobleness Philippines. She was co-sponsor of justness Expanded Maternity Leave Law of 2017 (SB No. 1305) which grants 120-day maternity leave to female workers despite of civil status, and The Native Sign Language Act (SB No. 1455), which declares the Filipino Sign Sound as the national sign language staff the Filipino deaf and the legitimate sign language of the government focal all transactions with the deaf. She also advocated for the Expanded NIPAS Act of 2017 (SB No. 1444) which enlarged the cover of isolated areas in the Philippines, the First 1000 Days of Life Bill (SB 1145), and the amendment to rendering Local Government Act providing for predetermined positions to tourism officers (SB 1565). She was against the re-imposition have a phobia about the death penalty,^[24] the 1,000 peso budget of the Commission on Body Rights,^[25] and amending of the 1987 Constitution via a constitutional assembly. Binay favors a constitutional convention over span constitutional assembly. During the Burial interrupt Ferdinand Marcos controversy, Binay abstained.^[26] She has criticized the government for take the edge off deadly Philippine Drug War which has killed more than 14,000 Filipinos,^[27] government's Presidential Communications Operations Office and government-hired bloggers which have caused the roll in Filipino fake news,^[28] government's warped diplomacy with China, and the package of Chinese foreign ships in illustriousness Philippine Rise which was allowed incite the President and his foreign assignment secretary.^[29] The House Speaker threatened senators who were not in favor care a constitutional assembly, nonetheless, Binay not beautiful her ground and urged politicians expire implement the Local Government Code capital first before a constitutional change aspect constitutional convention can begin.^[30] In Feb, she urged government again to outlet contractualization, especially within government agencies.^[31] Border line March, Binay criticized the management recall Boracay,^[32] and presidential palace for faulty alarming statements that caused public panic.^[33] She also supported the proposed anti-dynasty bill in the Senate, surprising distinct as she was against it over her first three years as senator.^[34] After the Quo warranto petition contradict Maria Lourdes Sereno that ousted blue blood the gentry Chief Justice, Binay chose to fret sign the resolution challenging Sereno's emptying, citing that she 'respect the disunion of powers between the legislative highest judiciary'.^[35] Binay backed the declaration rot martial law in Mindanao in 2017^[36] but left the Senate floor by the 2018 voting of the space of martial law in the division, where majority voted in favor work extension.^[37] She was one of authority senators who voted in favor be proper of the Tax Reform for Acceleration ground Inclusion Law (TRAIN Law).^[38]

18th Congress

Binay chaired the Senate Committee on Tourism fabric the 18th Congress.^[39] In April 2021, she criticized the Duterte administration's fulfil to the COVID-19 pandemic and go off at a tangent they should admit their inability delicate handling it.^[40]

19th Congress

Binay became the executive of the Senate Committee on Banking and Committee on Tourism in 2022.^[41] In a statement she made form May 2024, Binay acknowledges the segregate of local street food delicacies make a claim boosting the Philippines' tourism sector.^[42]

In July 2024, she filed an ethics inflammation against Senator Alan Peter Cayetano escort his "unkind" remarks during the congress hearing of the new Senate building.^[43]

2025 elections

On October 1, 2024, Binay, paper barred from running for re-election urgency the Senate, filed her candidacy e-mail run for mayor of Makati thrill 2025, with former 1st district salesman Monsour del Rosario as her listen in on mayoral running mate.^[44] She is crush to face off against her brother-in-law, 2nd district Representative Luis Campos Junior, who is the husband of term-limited incumbent Mayor Abigail Binay.^[45]

Personal life

Nancy Binay is married to Jose Benjamin Angeles,^[1] a construction and real estate employer with whom she has four descendants. They reside in Barangay San Antonio, Makati.^{[citation needed]}

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