“Erap para sa Mahirap”

Educational Attainment:

• Ateneo De Manila (Expelled)
• MAPUA Institute of Technology (Dropped Out)

Career as Public Servant:

Political Programs:

• "Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan for 1999 to 2004"[1]
• "Angat Pinoy 2004"[1]
• Started the construction of the Metrostar Rail Transit (MRT along EDSA)[1]

• Attained positive growth in the country’s GNP by 2% and GDP by 1.2% during his first year of his presidency and 3.7% and 3.4% during his 2nd year respectively[1].
• Decreased the inflation rate to an average of 9.7% to 8.4% during the first-half of 1999 to 6.6% at the 2nd-half and to 3.5% at the 1st-half of 2000[.1]
• Decreased the unemployment rate from 13.3% to 11.8% that gave 1.6 million Filipinos jobs[1].
• Gave more than 20,000 hectares of land irrigation and build 250 km of farm-to-market roads[1].
• Fully implemented the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act that aims at transforming our agriculture and fisheries into technologically advanced and globally competitive sectors[1]
• Built or upgraded 582 kilometers of roads, 10,069 lineal meters of bridges, provided electricity to 1,221 barangays and installed 165,000 new telephone lines. [1]
• Distributed more than 266,000 hectares of land to 175,000 landless farmers, including land owned by the traditional rural elite. (Total of 523,000 hectares to 305,000 farmers during his 2nd year as President)[1]
• Won the war against the terrorism caused by the MILF rebels[2]
• Constructed thousands of new classrooms, provided hundreds of thousands of new desks, addressed the teacher shortage problem, and proposed improvements to the curricula to meet both global standards and local needs[2].
• In partnership with the private sector, extended assistance to students by providing them access to the Internet[2].
• Launched a parallel importation program to bring down the market prices of medicines drastically and make them affordable to the poor[2].
• From July 1999 to May 2000, more than 190,000 households were provided with housing units. This represents 52 percent of the target households to be sheltered in Metro Manila and surrounding provinces[2].
• Exports, led by electronics and semiconductors, reached $11.3 billion in the first four months of 2000, 10.6 percent higher than for the same period of 1999[2].

• End the Rebellion in the Mindanao Region[2]
• Decrease the inflation rate of the country[1]
• Increase the GNP and GDP of the country[1]
• Exterminate poverty [1]