1. Cynthia Villar was a member of the House of Representatives for the Lone District of Las Pinas from 2001 to 2010 before winning a seat in the Senate in 2013, placing tenth.
23 Facts About Cynthia Villar
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Cynthia Villar was re-elected for a second term in the Senate in the 2019 Philippine Senate elections, earning what was then the most votes in senate election history, until this number was surpassed by Robin Padilla in 2022.
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Cynthia Villar was born on July 29,1950, in Muntinlupa, then a municipality in Rizal, to Filemon Aguilar, a long-time mayor of Las Pinas and congressman, and Lydia Ampaya.
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Cynthia Villar spent her elementary years at the Muntinlupa Elementary School, where she graduated in 1962.
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Cynthia Villar then obtained a degree in Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1970.
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Cynthia Villar practiced as a financial analyst at the Philippine Shares Corporation and a professor at the Far Eastern University before marrying Villar in 1975.
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Cynthia Villar later managed the Capitol Development Bank, where she served as its treasurer from 1989 to 1990 and its president from 1990 to 1998.
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When Manny Cynthia Villar became Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1998, she became the chairwoman of the Congressional Spouses Foundation, serving until 2000.
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In 2013, Cynthia Villar ran as senator under the ticket of his husband's rival in the 2010 presidential elections, President Benigno Aquino III and won, finishing in 10th place.
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On July 10,2014, Cynthia Villar criticized the arrest of senators Bong Revilla, Juan Ponce Enrile, and Jinggoy Estrada after the three were linked as the masterminds to the Priority Development Assistance Fund scam or Pork Barrel scandal.
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In October 2016, Cynthia Villar backed President Duterte's Philippine Drug War, which according to rights groups and activists has killed at least 20,000 Filipinos.
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In November 2016, Cynthia Villar voted against a resolution which sought to reject the Duterte-initiated burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
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In February 2017, Cynthia Villar voted in favor of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Act, which increased the inflation rate and cost of goods in the country.
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Cynthia Villar afterwards blamed "traders" for the negative effects of the law that she supported.
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On June 14,2017, Cynthia Villar urged the government to impose a ban in 'unli-rice'.
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On March 6,2018, Cynthia Villar stated that she has 'no conflict of interest' into investigations into the status of Boracay, despite her family's ownership of properties on the island.
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On May 17,2018, Cynthia Villar did not support the resolution against the ouster of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno via a quo warranto petition.
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On July 23,2018, Cynthia Villar announced that she "admired" President Rodrigo Duterte.
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Cynthia Villar then placed first in the Senate race with 25,283,727 votes, the most votes in the Philippine election history, and was re-elected for a second term in the Senate.
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Cynthia Villar explained that she favored the students who wanted to continue their schooling.
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Cynthia Villar apologized on March 4,2013, to Filipino nurses who were hurt by her recent statement on the nursing profession.
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Cynthia Villar then responded that she just wanted the budget to be allocated properly.
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Cynthia Villar later said that she was referring to workers in government, including herself.