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I have been editing this article for a few days. I ran down through the article and fixed any grammer mistakes I could find. I would appreciate any suggestions on what to do and how I can really improve it further. Thanks a lot. [[User:Mr. Killigan|Mr. Killigan]] 06:17, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
|+ style="font-size: larger;" | '''Franklin Drilon'''
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| colspan="2" | <center>'''Senator of the Philippines'''<br>[[1995]]–''incumbent''</center>
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| colspan="2" | <center>'''President of the Senate of the Philippines'''<br>[[2000]], [[2001]]–[[2006]]</center>
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| colspan="2" | <center>'''Executive Secretary'''<br>[[1991]]–[[1992]]</center>
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| colspan="2" | <center>'''Secretary of Justice'''<br>[[1990]]–[[1991]], [[1992]]–[[1995]]</center>
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| colspan="2" | <center>'''Secretary of Labor and Employment'''<br>[[1987]]–[[1990]]</center>
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! Political Party:
| [[Liberal Party (Philippines)|Liberal Party]] (<small>[[Franklin Drilon|Drilon]] Wing</small>) ([[2005]] to date)<br> [[Liberal Party (Philippines)|Liberal Party]] ([[2003]]– )<br>Independent ([[2000]]–[[2003]])<br>[[Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino|LAMP]] ([[1998]]–[[2000]])<br>[[Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats|Lakas-NUCD]] ([[1995]]–[[1998]])
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! Born:
| [[November 28]], [[1945]] (age 61)<br>[[Iloilo City]], [[Iloilo]]
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! Spouse:
| Violeta Calvo (Deceased)<br>Mila Serrano-Genuino
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==== Kirill Lokshin ====
'''Franklin Magtunao Drilon''' (born [[November 28]], [[1945]]) is a [[Filipino people|Filipino]] politician. He is also the Chairman of the [[Liberal Party (Philippines)|Liberal Party]].
There are a number of areas to work on, at this point; keep in mind, though, that this is a very high-profile article, so you should be careful to move slowly and carefully to avoid getting entangled in any editorial conflicts here.
==Early life and career==
* <s>The article is, in my opinion, simply too long; we're looking at 72K (~12,000 words) of prose. The "Legacy" section, in particular, is ripe for splitting out into a separate [[Legacy of the Korean War]] article, with a much shorter summary left in the main one.</s>
Drilon was born on [[November 28]], [[1945]] in [[Iloilo City]], [[Iloilo]] and is the eldest son of Cesar Drilon, Sr. and Primitiva Drilon. He took his elementary education at the Baluarte Elementary School in Molo, Iloilo, Iloilo and graduated in 1957. He finished his secondary education at the [[University of the Philippines|U.P. - Iloilo College]] in 1961. In college, he went to the [[University of the Philippines]] where he initially took up Bachelor in Arts in 1965. At U.P., he was the associate editor to the ''Philippine Collegian'' and served as councilor of the U.P. [[Student Council]]. Among his classmates were future politicians [[Miriam Defensor-Santiago]] and Ronaldo Zamora. In 1969, he completed his [[Lawyer|Bachelor of Laws]] (LL.B.) at the [[University of the Philippines|U.P.]] [[College of Law]]. In the same year he took the [[bar examination]] and finished with the third highest score.
* <s>"Korean War (1950 – 1953)" should really be something like "Course of the war"; you probably don't want to repeat the article title as a section heading.</s>
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* The citations need cleanup; at a minimum, all of the embedded external links should be converted to footnotes. There are also a number of "citation needed" tags floating around. Beyond that, more thorough citation would be appropriate throughout the article; see [[WP:MILHIST#CITE]] for some guidelines.
In the same year, he served as an associate lawyer to the [http://www.syciplaw.com ''Sycip, Salazar, Luna, Manalo & Feliciano Law Offices''](now [[SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan]]). He moved to the [http://www.accralaw.com Angara, Abello, Concepcion, Regala & Cruz Law Offices] (ACCRA) in [[1974]] where he served as a senior associate lawyer. He was elevated to ''partner'' in [[1975]], ''co-managing partner'' in [[1981]] and ''managing partner'' in [[1986]]. He was also a Bar Examiner on Labor and Social Legislation in the [[1979]] and [[1984]] [[bar examination]]s. He also became the Vice-President and Governor of the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) and the Vice-President, Board Member and Treasurer of the Personnel Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP).
* <s>The "Depictions" section should be turned into prose, rather than a laundry list of films; see also [[WP:MILHIST#POP]].</s>
* <s>The "Names" section, as it's presently constituted, would work much better as a narrow sidebar; it's of some interest, but I doubt there's enough material to sustain a separate section.</s>
* <s>The "See also" section should be eliminated. If something isn't worth linking from the text, it's generally not worth linking at all. </s>
* <s>The rump "Bibliography" section should be removed as well.</s>
* The "External links" section could use trimming.
Hope that helps! [[User:Kirill Lokshin|Kirill]] 04:08, 13 July 2007 (UTC)<s>cool</s>
::Thank you very much for offering your opinion! [[User:Mr. Killigan|Mr. Killigan]] 00:57, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
==Government positions==
Drilon served the government and public corporations through the following positions:
*Department of Justice
**Secretary, (1990-1991; 1992-1995)
**Chairman, Board of Pardons and Parole
**Vice-Chairman, Judicial and Bar Council (JBC)
**Member, National Unification Commission
**Chairman, Presidential Committee on Human Rights (PCHR)
*Executive Secretary (1991-1992)
**Chairman, Cabinet Cluster on Political & Security Matters (Cluster "E")
**Member, National Security Council (NSC)
**Vice-Chairman, Committee on Privatization (COP)
**Member, Joint Legislative-Executive Foreign Debt Council
*Department of Labor and Employment
**Secretary, (1987-1990)
**Deputy Minister for Industrial Relations, Department of Labor and Employment (1986-1987)
**Member, Presidential Agrarian Reform Council (PARC)
**Commissioner, Social Security Commission
**Chairman, National Labor Relations Commission
**Chairman, Philippine Overseas Employment Administration
**Chairman, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration
**Chairman, Employee Compensation Commission
**Trustee, Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG Fund)
**Board Member, National Housing Authority
**Chairman, National Manpower and Youth Council
**Chairman, National Wages Council
**Chairman, National Maritime Polytechnic
**Vice-Chairman, Public Sector Labor-Management Council
**Co-Chairman, National Productivity Commission
**Board Member, Maritime Training Council
*Chairman, Philippine National Bank (PNB)
*Director, Philippine Air Lines (PAL)
*Director, Land Bank of the Philippines
*Board Member, Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation
*Board Member, Population Commission
*Cabinet Officer for Regional Development (CORD) of Region VI
As Labor Secretary, He was able to establish industrial peace in the post-Marcos era, a requisite for increased investments and employment. He was fair yet firm in dealing with the conflicting demands of management and labor.
As Justice Secretary, he was instrumental in the prosecution and conviction of Mayor Antonio Sanchez of [[Calauan]], [[Laguna]], who masterminded the rape-slaying of a [[UP Los Baños]] coed and the murder of her friend; Claudio Teehankee Jr., who figured in the gun slaying of Maureen Hultman; and Rolito Go, the trigger-happy assailant of a La Salle student. The three are locked up in jail, a testimony to the uncompromising belief of Drilon that everyone is equal before the bar of justice.
==Political career==
In [[1992]], most of the Aquino [[cabinet secretary|cabinet]] were drafted for the Senate candidate line-up of the newly created party [[Lakas Tao]]. But Drilon opted to help Mrs. Aquino finish her term. He was again given the opportunity to run as a Senatorial candidate of the [[Lakas NUCD|Lakas]]-[[Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino|Laban]] coalition in the [[Philippine general election, 1995|1995 election]]. He got the fourth highest number of votes in that Senate race. In [[1998]], he bolted [[Lakas NUCD|Lakas]] and joined the [[Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino]] (LDP) and supported [[Joseph Estrada]] to the presidency. He was selected as Senate Majority Floor Leader the same year. In [[1999]], he was among who voted in favor on the ratification of the Visiting Forces Agreement. When [[Marcelo Fernan]] died of cancer the same year, he made concessions with [[Blas Ople]] in sharing the seat of the [[Senate President]]. They agreed that Ople will serve as Senate President from 1999-2000 and he would serve from 2000-2001. Ople served his term from [[July 1999]]-[[July 2000]]. Drilon was installed as Senate President in [[July 2000]].
==EDSA II==
On [[October 2000]] he issued a statement about the ''Juetengate Scandal'' of President [[Joseph Estrada]]. He was removed the next month through a Senate revamp and [[Aquilino Pimentel Jr.]] was installed Senate President. On [[December 2000]], an [[impeachment]] case was filed on the Senate. On [[January 13]], [[2001]], he was one who voted in favor of the opening of the second bank envelope. Their vote was outnumbered and Drilon was remembered as the Senator who cried in front of Senate President Pimentel together with Senator [[Loren Legarda]]. [[Joseph Estrada]] was ousted January by the [[EDSA II|second EDSA People Power Revolution]]. As a true gentleman, he allowed Pimentel to occupy the Senate Presidency until the end the regular session on June 2001.
==2001-present==
Drilon ran again for the Senate as independent but was under the People Power Coalition senatorial line-up. The lineup was carefully chosen and the first letter of the candidate's surname (except for Roberto Pagdanganan) ended up with the line VOT FOR D CHAMMP. The line became a hit, and it led to the election of most of the coalition's senatorial candidates including Drilon.
When the session resumes July 2001, Pimentel was replaced by Drilon as Senate President. Pimentel bolted the administration coalition and joined forces with the opposition coalition. In [[2003]], Administration coalition partner [[Liberal Party (Philippines)|Liberal Party]], to which Arroyo's father, [[Diosdado Macapagal]] served as chairman in the 60's, invited Drilon to be its member. Days after, Drilon was elected chairman of the political party. Before the [[Philippine general election, 2004|2004 elections]], Drilon invited Senator [[Rodolfo Biazon]] as its member. Biazon bolted Raul Roco's coalition ''Alyansa ng Pag-asa'' just days after he joined convention as its new member.
Drilon had close contacts with President [[Gloria Macapagal Arroyo]] since 2001 and actively supporting her when she ran for a fresh mandate to the presidency. That relationship ended in [[July 8]] when Drilon together with Biazon and some prominent members of the [[Liberal Party (Philippines)|Liberal Party]] decided to withdraw support from her and asked for her resignation. In Arroyo's 2005 State of the Nation Address, Drilon was only one noticed not applausing in entire program.
Drilon has been a vocal critic of the NorthRail project, a Chinese government-backed project to overhaul Manila's decrepit railway system. The railway will be the first double-tracked railway in the country, and will eventually extend to Clark in Pampanga and, say the architects, as far north as San Fernando, La Union.
==Personal life==
Frank as what many call him was married to fellow lawyer Violeta Calvo with whom he had two children, Eliza and Patrick. During his candidacy for the Senate seat, Drilon often fly to the US to comfort his wife, who was then being treated for [[lung cancer]]. Mrs. Drilon died with the disease in [[September 1995]], two months after her husband assumed his Senate seat. Two years after, Drilon proposed to close family friend Mila Serrano-Genuino, who was a widow. They married with former Presidents Aquino and Ramos as wedding sponsors.
Drilon is a member of the [[Rotary Club]], [[Makati]] Chapter. He was an active member of the [[Bar association|Integrated Bar of the Philippines]] (IBP) where he was a former President of the [[Pasay]]-[[Makati]]-[[Mandaluyong]]-[[San Juan, Metro Manila|San Juan]] Chapter. Although he was born in Iloilo, he is a registered voter of Greenhills, [[San Juan, Metro Manila|San Juan]].
==External links==
*[http://www.senate.gov.ph/senators/sen13th.htm Senate of the Philippines]
*[http://www.i-site.ph/Databases/Congress/13thSenate/SALS/drilon-SAL.html Franklin Drilon's Assets and Liabilities]
*[http://franklindrilon.blogspot.com/ Franklin Drilon Blog] Unofficial Blog for Franklin Drilon
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before= Sedfrey A. Ordoñez |
title= [[Department of Justice (Philippines)|Secretary of Justice]] |
years= January 4, 1990 – July 14, 1991 |
after= Silvestre H. Bello III
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before= Eduardo G. Montenegro |
title= [[Department of Justice (Philippines)|Secretary of Justice]] |
years= July 1, 1992 – February 2, 1995 |
after= Demetrio G. Demetria
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before= [[Blas Ople|Blas F. Ople]] |
title= [[President of the Senate of the Philippines|President of the Philippine Senate]] |
years= 2000 |
after= [[Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.|Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr.]]
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before= [[Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.|Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr.]] |
title= [[President of the Senate of the Philippines|President of the Philippine Senate]] |
years= 2001–2006 |
after= [[Manuel Villar]]
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