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26 Facts About Raffy Tulfo

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Raffy Tulfo's works are focused on government and private sector issues, and he is best known as the host of the long-running public affairs radio program Wanted sa Radyo, and the former anchor of Aksyon sa Tanghali from 2014 to 2020 that featured the segment "Ipa-Raffy Tulfo Mo".

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Raffy Tulfo sought a seat in the Philippine senate in the 2022 election and won placing third overall with 23 million votes.

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Raffy Tulfo serves as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Senate Committee on Migrant Workers.

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Rafael Teshiba Raffy Tulfo was born in Quezon City on March 12,1960.

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Raffy Tulfo is the eighth out of ten siblings which includes Tuchi, Bong, Joseph, Edelle, broadcasters Ramon, Ben, Erwin, as well as former tourism secretary Wanda Corazon Teo.

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Raffy Tulfo would be known for the radio broadcast program Wanted sa Radyo as well in YouTube for Raffy Tulfo in Action.

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Raffy Tulfo would endorse the ACT-CIS Partylist for the 2019 House of Representatives elections, with the organization managing to garner three seats in the lower house.

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Raffy Tulfo finished in third place, receiving 23,396,954 votes, and was proclaimed as Senator on May 18,2022.

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Raffy Tulfo was later elected as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy.

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At the start of the 19th Congress in July 2022, Raffy Tulfo filed his priority bills which include protecting Filipino workers from abusive employers and providing discounts for poor job applicants.

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Raffy Tulfo filed a bill amending the Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Act to protect all family members from violence.

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Amid rising electricity rates in Mindanao and other parts of the Philippines in August 2022, Raffy Tulfo called for a Senate investigation into the rotational blackouts in the country and filed a Senate resolution seeking to avert the imminent energy crisis.

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In 2023, Raffy Tulfo filed a bill legalizing and regulating the underground importation of ukay-ukay second-hand products which already evolved as part of Filipino culture.

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Raffy Tulfo later filed a bill mandating all providers of critical infrastructure services such as power generation and distribution, water supply, healthcare, transportation, communications, and financial services to respond within two hours from the time of emergency service requests.

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Raffy Tulfo filed a bill establishing security monitoring systems such as CCTV cameras in all prison cells to ensure the safety of inmates and prison personnel.

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Amid several power outages in Luzon and growing tension between the Philippines and China in May 2023, Raffy Tulfo filed a senate resolution investigating the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines to verify if it poses a threat to national security for being 40 percent owned by the State Grid Corporation of China.

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From 1996 to 1999, Raffy Tulfo wrote a series of articles in his Abante Tonite column alleging anomalous and illegal activities by officials of the Bureau of Customs.

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On March 24,2004, Raffy Tulfo published an article in his Abante Tonite column accusing businessman Michael Guy of seeking help from former finance secretary Juanita Amatong to halt a tax fraud investigation by the Department of Finance's Revenue Integrity Protection Service.

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In June 2014, Raffy Tulfo again posted bail for an arrest warrant issued by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court after Senior Police Officer III Abubakhar Manlangit filed a libel case against him and his brother Erwin.

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In 2023, the Daily Tribune reported that Raffy Tulfo has been a product endorser of the 1UP brand by Superbreakthrough Enterprises, a company which the Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a cease and desist order for illegally soliciting investments.

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Raffy Tulfo's camp has reasoned that his endorsement is on assuring the quality of 1UP products rather than the operations of Superbreakthrough.

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Raffy Tulfo is married to Jocelyn Pua, the incumbent representative for ACT-CIS Partylist since 2019.

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Raffy Tulfo's daughter Maricel was born on 1992 and hosts his programs Wanted sa Radyo and Idol in Action.

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Raffy Tulfo's son Ralph Wendell was born on 1996 and is the incumbent representative of the 2nd district of Quezon City since 2022.

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Julieta Nacpil Licup claimed that she and Raffy Tulfo married on October 25,1982, at a civil wedding in Capas, Tarlac with supporting evidence and they have one daughter named Grendy, born in 1984.

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Raffy Tulfo claimed that Tulfo married another woman named Celedonia Amos in the United States in 1985.