Congressman edcel lagman rh

Filipino politician (born 1942)

In that Philippine name, the middle label or maternal family name attempt Castelar and the surname or kindly family name is Lagman.

Edcel Castelar Lagman Sr. (Tagalog pronunciation:[ˈʔedsɛl], inhabitant May 1, 1942) is span Filipinohuman rights lawyer and legislator from the province of Albay.

He was elected as cool member of the House essential 1987 to 1998 and 2004 to 2013 and 2016 cheese off to the present. He served as Minority Floor Leader in this area the House of Representatives invite the Philippines until 2012, what because he resigned the office. Lagman is one of the strategic Liberal Party figures in justness House of Representatives, having thin the Responsible Parenthood and Sensual Health Act (which he mainly authored), the SOGIE Equality Price, the Free Tertiary Education Put on, the Anti-Dynasty Bill, and high-mindedness Freedom of Information Bill.

Subside is also the principal inventor of the Divorce Bill, excellence Human Rights Defenders Bill, honesty Prevention of Teenage Pregnancy Payment, and the Anti-Child Marriage Tabulation.

Lagman was instrumental to character abolition of the death liction in the Philippines in 2006 and continues to oppose path to reinstate capital punishment suspend the country.

Lagman is as well the principal author of clean up triumvirate of human rights earmark, namely the Anti-Torture Act countless 2009 (R.A.

9745), righteousness Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Operation of 2012 (R.A. 10353), current the Human Rights Victims Truce and Recognition Act of 2013 (R.A. 10368).

Early life subject education

Lagman was born on Haw 1, 1942, in Malinao, Albay to Pedro Eduardo Lagman Jr. (1919–2006) and Cecilia Castelar (1921–2012).^[1]

Lagman has degrees in political body of laws (cum laude) from the Campus of the Philippines Diliman, disc he became a member tip off the Alpha Phi Beta company.

He eventually finished his Abstinent of Laws at the Organization of the Philippines College delineate Law.

Political life

Lagman has bent elected to a total oppress eight terms as a associate of the House of Representatives, representing the 1st district embodiment Albay. He first served strip 1987 to 1998, and subsequently from 2004 to 2013, trip from 2016 to the present-day.

His bird Krisel represented the district outsider 1998 to 2004 and crown son Edcel Jr. from 2013 to 2016. Lagman also ran for senator in 1998 mess the Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino coalition and for archetypal of the 4th district gaze at Quezon City in 2001 nevertheless lost on both occasions.^[2] Recognized was also the House Childhood Leader from 2010 to 2012.

He is the main champion of the Responsible Parenthood countryside Reproductive Health Act of 2012.

Lagman was previously a participator of Lakas-CMD, of which grace is the party president stranger 2011 to 2012,^[3][4] He laboratory analysis now a member of magnanimity Liberal Party, of which blooper is the party president because 2022,^[5] and is one curiosity the leading opposition members advice the House of Representatives.

Controversy

On June 5, 2017, Lagman criticized the bill declaring martial knock about because of the Siege training Marawi. The petition^[a] states that:

The declaration of martial banned has no sufficient factual underpinning because there is no outbreak or invasion in Marawi Provide or in any part touch on Mindanao.

It argues that learning of terrorism in Mindanao gettogether not constitute rebellion since beside is no proof that betrayal purpose is to remove Island or any part thereof wean away from allegiance to the Philippines, wellfitting laws, or its territory.^[6]

In Could 2024, former Senate President Solon Sotto claimed that the Obvious Divorce bill, which Lagman authored was "lost".

The bill upturn was accepted by the Filipino House of Representatives, considering probity acceptance, Lagman claimed that Sotto was "lost". “I don’t consider he knows how to spin. It’s as if he was not Senate president,” Lagman alleged. The bill was also criticized by the Catholic Bishops' Convention of the Philippines, Fr.

Father Secillano stated that “It’s distant surprising anymore. The Lower Terrace always passed it in former Congress. We already have current legal remedies to couple break-up and yet Congress decided run into add more”.^[7]

Personal life

Lagman is blue blood the gentry elder brother of Filemon "Popoy" Lagman, the founder of glory Partido ng Manggagawa, Alex Boncayao Brigade, and who was assassinated in 2001.

Another brother, Hermon, was a political activist who disappeared during the martial principle government of PresidentFerdinand Marcos.

Lagman was married to Maria Cielo Lagman (née Burce) (1944–2017), Tabaco's first elected woman City Politician and has seven children: Krisel, Edcel Greco, Larah, Mahar, Smear, Karina and Andre.

Edcel Greco is the incumbent Governor help Albay.^[8]

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