20 Facts About Edcel Lagman

Edcel Lagman was elected as a member of the House from 1987 to 1998 and 2004 to 2013 and from 2016 up until his death.

Edcel Lagman served as Minority Floor Leader of the House of Representatives of the Philippines until 2012, when he resigned the office.

Edcel Lagman was the principal author of the Divorce Bill, the Human Rights Defenders Bill, the Prevention of Teenage Pregnancy Bill, and the Anti-Child Marriage Bill.

Edcel Lagman was instrumental to the abolition of the death penalty in the Philippines in 2006 and continued to oppose proposals to reinstate capital punishment in the country.

Edcel Lagman was born on May 1,1942, in Malinao, Albay to Pedro Eduardo Diaz Edcel Lagman Jr.

Edcel Lagman had degrees in political science from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1962, where he became a member of the Alpha Phi Beta fraternity.

Edcel Lagman eventually finished his Bachelor of Laws at the University of the Philippines College of Law in 1966.

Edcel Lagman served as a managing editor of the Philippine Collegian and editor of the UP Law Register.

Edcel Lagman's first entered government as a deputy minister of the Ministry of Budget and Management in 1986, during the presidency of Corazon Aquino.

Edcel Lagman was elected to a total of eight terms as a member of the House of Representatives, representing the 1st district of Albay.

Edcel Lagman first served from 1987 to 1998, and then from 2004 to 2013, and from 2016 until his death in 2025.

Edcel Lagman ran for senator in 1998 under the Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino coalition and for representative of the 4th district of Quezon City in 2001 but lost on both occasions.

Edcel Lagman was the House Minority Leader from 2010 to 2012.

Edcel Lagman was the main proponent of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012.

Edcel Lagman was previously a member of Lakas-CMD, of which he was party president from 2011 to 2012, He later joined the Liberal Party and became its party president in 2022.

On June 5,2017, Edcel Lagman criticized the bill declaring martial law because of the Siege of Marawi.

In May 2024, former Senate President Tito Sotto claimed that the Absolute Divorce bill, which Edcel Lagman authored was "lost".

The bill itself was accepted by the Philippine House of Representatives, considering the acceptance, Edcel Lagman claimed that Sotto was "lost".

Edcel Lagman was the elder brother of Filemon "Popoy" Edcel Lagman, the founder of the Partido ng Manggagawa and the Alex Boncayao Brigade who was assassinated in 2001.

Edcel Lagman died from a cardiac arrest on January 30,2025, at the age of 82.