Sixto Brillantes was appointed by President Benigno Aquino III on January 16,2011 to serve the unexpired term of Chairman Jose Melo.
14 Facts About Sixto Brillantes
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Sixto Brillantes has four siblings including former Labor Secretary and Ambassador to Canada Jose Brillantes.
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Sixto Brillantes studied at Saint Theresa's College of San Marcelino, Manila, and Ateneo de Manila University for grade school and then San Beda College for high-school and college, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce degree in 1960 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1965.
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Sixto Brillantes passed the CPA examinations in 1960 and then placed seventh in the 1965 bar examinations.
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In 1966, Sixto Brillantes worked at the Court of Appeals as a legal researcher.
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Sixto Brillantes was a director, corporate secretary and legal counsel of the Eduardo Cojuangco Jr.
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Sixto Brillantes then became a senior partner of several law offices starting in 1983 but specialized in election law only in 1985.
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Sixto Brillantes then was a legal consultant of United Opposition, a party founded by Jejomar Binay, from 2007 to 2009.
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Sixto Brillantes helped in the campaigns of Cojuangco during the 1992 presidential election, Joseph Estrada during the 1998 presidential election, Fernando Poe Jr.
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Sixto Brillantes taught general and election law at San Beda, Arellano Law Foundation, and Perpetual Help College, as well as accounting at the Philippine School of Business Administration and St Theresa's College.
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Sixto Brillantes was appointed by President Aquino, his client, as chairman of the COMELEC on January 16,2011.
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Sixto Brillantes allegedly voiced his fears to President Aquino that Brillantes may favor Senator Francis Escudero or Vice-President Jejomar Binay in the 2016 elections.
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Sixto Brillantes married Francisca Verde-Sixto Brillantes, a nutritionist-dietician, in 1970 and had three children.
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Sixto Brillantes died on August 11,2020, three days before his 81st birthday.