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People's Reform Party (PRP). Plataporma. Reporma. Pilipino.

Leadership

Who runs the party.

The founder

Miriam Defensor Santiago

Born June 15, 1945, Iloilo City. Died September 29, 2016.

“Our task is to reform the culture of corruption.”
On founding the party, 1991

Offices held

  • Commissioner, Bureau of Immigration

    1988 to 1989

  • Secretary of Agrarian Reform

    1989 to 1990

  • Judge, International Criminal Court

    2011 to 2014

  • Senator

    1995 to 2001 · 2004 to 2010 · 2010 to 2016

Laws authored or sponsored

  • Renewable Energy Act (2008)
  • Climate Change Act (2009)
  • Reproductive Health Act (2012)
  • Philippine Act on Crimes Against International Humanitarian Law
  • SOGIE Equality Bill (first filed 2000)

Honours

  • Ramon Magsaysay Award 1988

    For bold and moral leadership in cleaning up a graft-ridden government agency.

  • Quezon Service Cross 2018

    The highest honour the Republic confers. She remains the only woman to receive it.

Books

She wrote roughly 30, among them Cutting Edge: The Politics of Reform in the Philippines and Stupid is Forever (2014).

Members who have held public office