Juan Ponce Enrile

Juan Ponce Enrile
Enrile in October 2018
Chief Presidential Legal Counsel
Assumed office
June 30, 2022
PresidentBongbong Marcos
Preceded byJesus Melchor Quitain
21st President of the Senate of the Philippines
In office
November 17, 2008 – June 5, 2013
Preceded byManny Villar
Succeeded byJinggoy Estrada (Acting)
Senate Minority Leader
In office
August 24, 2015 – June 30, 2016
Preceded byTito Sotto (Acting)
Succeeded byRalph Recto
In office
July 22, 2013 – July 28, 2014
Preceded byAlan Peter Cayetano
Succeeded byTito Sotto (Acting)
In office
July 27, 1987 – January 18, 1992
Preceded byRe-established
Title last held by Gerardo Roxas
Succeeded byWigberto Tañada
Senator of the Philippines
In office
June 30, 2004 – June 30, 2016
In office
June 30, 1995 – June 30, 2001
In office
August 15, 1987 – June 30, 1992
Member of the House of Representatives from Cagayan's 1st district
In office
June 30, 1992 – June 30, 1995
Preceded byDomingo A. Tuazon
Succeeded byPatricio T. Antonio
Member of the Regular Batasang Pambansa from Cagayan
In office
June 30, 1984 – March 25, 1986
Member of the Interim Batasang Pambansa from Region II
In office
June 12, 1978 – June 5, 1984
15th Minister of National Defense
In office
January 4, 1972 – November 23, 1986
PresidentFerdinand Marcos
Corazon Aquino
Preceded byFerdinand Marcos
Succeeded byRafael Ileto
In office
February 9, 1970 – August 27, 1971
PresidentFerdinand Marcos
Preceded byErnesto Ma
Succeeded byFerdinand Marcos
36th Secretary of Justice
In office
December 17, 1968 – February 7, 1970
PresidentFerdinand Marcos
Preceded byClaudio Teehankee Sr.
Succeeded byFelix Makasiar
Undersecretary for Finance
In office
January 1, 1966 – December 17, 1968
PresidentFerdinand Marcos
Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs
In office
1966–1968
PresidentFerdinand Marcos
Preceded byJacinto T. Gavino
Succeeded byRolando G. Geotina
Personal details
Born
Juan Valentin Furagganan[1]

(1924-02-14) February 14, 1924 (age 100)[2]
Gonzaga, Cagayan, Philippines[a]
Political partyPMP (2004–present)
Other political
affiliations
LDP (2001–2004)
Independent (1995–2001)
KBL (1978–1987)
Nacionalista (1965–1978; 1987–1995)
Spouse
Cristina Castañer
(m. 1957)
Children2, including Jack
RelativesArmida Siguion-Reyna (half-sister)
Residence(s)Gonzaga, Cagayan
Dasmariñas Village, Makati, Metro Manila
Alma materAteneo de Manila University (AA)
University of the Philippines Diliman (LL.B)
Harvard University (LL.M)
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionLawyer
Ponce Enrile, Reyes & Manalastas (1983–2020)

Juan Valentin Furagganan Ponce Enrile Sr., CLH (born Juan Valentin Furagganan;[3] February 14, 1924), also referred to by his initials JPE, is a Filipino politician and lawyer who served as 21st President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2008 to 2013 and known for his role in the administration of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos; his role in the failed coup that helped hasten the 1986 People Power Revolution and the ouster of Marcos; and his tenure in the Philippine legislature in the years after the revolution. Enrile has served four terms in the Senate, in a total of twenty-two years, he holds the third longest-tenure in the history of the upper chamber. In 2022, at the age of 98, he returned to government office as the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel in the administration of President Bongbong Marcos.

Enrile was a protégé of President Ferdinand Marcos who served as Justice Secretary and Defense Minister during the Marcos administration. Enrile played a key role in the planning and documentary legwork for Martial Law, and was in charge of the Philippine Military during its implementation.[4] Other roles in this period included Presidency of the Philippine Coconut Authority through which he gained control of the copra industry together with Danding Cojuangco,[5] and being the general put in charge of logging in the Philippines under martial law - a period during which lumber exports were so extensive that the forest cover of the Philippines shrank until only 8% remained.[5] By the 1980s, however, rising factionalism in the Marcos administration led to a reduction in Enrile's influence within the administration.[6]

Enrile and the Reform the Armed Forces Movement organized a plot to overthrow Marcos in February 1986, but they were discovered. Deciding to stage a last stand in Camp Aguinaldo, Enrile sought support from other units of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and received it from Philippine Constabulary General Fidel Ramos in nearby Camp Crame, who joined Enrile in withdrawing support for Marcos in February 1986. Marcos moved to put down the dissenters in Camps Aguinaldo and Crame, but civilians who were already preparing mass protests in response to electoral fraud during the 1986 Philippine presidential election went en masse to Epifanio de los Santos Avenue near Enrile and Ramos's forces, and prevented Marcos from assaulting the coup organizers.[7][8] This mass movement of citizens to protect Enrile and Ramos was one of the key moments of the 1986 People Power Revolution which drove Marcos out of power and into exile. Enrile has continued to be a politician since 1986; he was the Senate President[9] from November 2008 until his resignation on June 5, 2013. He remained a Senator until 2016, latterly as Minority Leader.

  1. ^ "The sad, dramatic, if redeeming, life of Juan Ponce Enrile". VERA Files. October 5, 2012.
  2. ^ "Resume of Senator Enrile". Senate of the Philippines: 18th Congress. Senate of the Philippines. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  3. ^ "The sad, dramatic, if redeeming, life of Juan Ponce Enrile". VERA Files. October 5, 2012.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference DML was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference DavideReportMilitaryIntervention was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Schock, Kurt (1999). "People Power and Political Opportunities: Social Movement Mobilization and Outcomes in the Philippines and Burma". Social Problems. 46 (3): 355–375. doi:10.2307/3097105. ISSN 0037-7791. JSTOR 3097105.
  8. ^ Cruz, Elfren S. "The road to EDSA". Philstar.com. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
  9. ^ "Biography of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile". Senate of the Philippines.


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