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Name: Arroyo,
Joker P.
Nickname:
Joker
Age: 74
Party:
LAKAS-NUCD
Present Occupation: Lawyer
Educational Background:
- Law,
A.B., University of the Philippines
- Pre-Law,
Ateneo de Manila
During
the Marcos Dictatorship:
- First
lawyer to challenge before the Supreme Court the constitutionality
of Proclamation 1081 imposing martial law.
- Thereafter,
he questioned before the Supreme Court along with others: 1) the ratification
of the Marcos-dictated 1973 Constitution; 2) amendment Six that empowered
President Marcos to exercise law-making powers alongside the Batasan
Pambansa; 3) the power of military tribunals to try civilians.
- Participated
before military commissions in the defense of Ninoy Aquino, Eugenio
Lopez, Jr., Jose Maria Sison, Commander Dante, Jovito Salonga, Eva
Kalaw and many others.
- Handled
more human rights cases than any other lawyer, from 1972-1986.
- Incarcerated,
thrown into bartolina and held incommunicado and in solitary in a
military stockade.
- Gassed,
injured and hospitalized during protest rallies.
- Counsel
of Cory Aquino in the snap elections.
- Co-founded
FLAG and MABINI.
- His
professional affiliations include the American Bar Association, the
International Bar Association (London), and the Union Internationale
de Advocats (Paris).
After
EDSA:
- Executive
Secretary: First Appointee of Cory Aquino
- Chairman
of the Philippine National Bank: 1960-1990
- Philippine
Director the Asian Development Bank: 1986-1990
- Founding
Chairman, First Philippine Fund, New York
- The
Senate extended him a rare commendation in Senate Resolution No. 100
"Commending Joker P. Arroyo For His Invaluable Services To
The Filipino People"
- The
104-year old Philippine Bar Association awarded him its "Most
Distinguished Award For Justice" as a "man beholden
to no one except to his country."
In congress:
- 1992,
1995 and 1998: Representative, 1st District of Makati obtaining 80%
of the votes cast in the elections.
- 100%
attendance record in the House of Representatives since his election.
- He
has never travelled abroad on government money.
- His
Statement of Assets and Liabilities has remain the same from the
time he entered public services in 1986 up to the present.
- Consistently
voted every year by media as "Outstanding Congressman of the
Year"
- Prosecutor
in the Impeachment Case against Joseph Estrada.
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