Antonio Trillanes

This name uses Philippine naming customs; the middle name or maternal family name is Fuentes and the surname or paternal family name is Trillanes.
Antonio Trillanes IV
Senator of the Philippines
Assumed office
June 30, 2007
Personal details
Born Antonio Fuentes Trillanes IV
(1971-08-06) August 6, 1971
Manila, Philippines
Nationality Filipino
Political party Nacionalista Party (2012-present)
Independent (2007–2012)
Magdalo
Other political
affiliations		 Team PNoy (2012-2013)

United Opposition (2007)
Spouse(s) Arlene G. Orejana
Children Francis Seth (b. 1997)
Thea Estelle (b. 1999)
Alan Andrew (b. 2001, now deceased)[1]
Residence Caloocan City
Alma mater Philippine Military Academy (BA)
University of the Philippines (MA)
Profession Senator/Legislator of the Philippines; Former Navy Lieutenant[2]
Religion Roman Catholic
Website Official Website
Military service
Allegiance  Philippines
Service/branch Philippine Navy
Years of service 1995-2003 (8 years)
Battles/wars CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion, Moro Conflict, Oakwood mutiny

Antonio "Sonny" Fuentes Trillanes IV (born August 6, 1971)[3] is a retired[4] Navy officer currently serving as a senator of the Philippines. He is a candidate for the Office of the Vice President of the Philippines in the 2016 Philippine Presidential Elections.

Early life

Known as "Sonny" to his family and friends, Trillanes was born and raised in Caloocan, to Philippine Navy Capt. Antonio Floranza Trillanes, Sr. (PMA Class '59) of Ligao City, Albay, and Estelita Dia Fuentes from Ivisan,[5] Capiz.

Education

His elementary years were spent at Siena College, Quezon City from 1975–1983, and from 1983–1987, his secondary education was at Angelicum College in Quezon City. In 1990, while a fourth[1] year BS in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) student from De La Salle University on Taft Avenue, Manila, he took and passed the [PMA] entrance examination.

Military career

He formally entered into public service the following year as a cadet in the Philippine Military Academy where he graduated cum laude in 1995, while earning a degree in BS Naval System Engineering. Other awards he received while in PMA are the Mathematics Plaque, Physical Science Plaque, and the Tambuli Award for electrical/electronics engineering.

In 2002, Trillanes took up his graduate studies at the University of the Philippines National College of Public Administration and Governance, and got his master's degree in Public Administration, Major in Public Policy and Program Management.

For the duration of the masters program, he received two University Scholar Awards for obtaining two semestral GPAs of 1.0 to 1.25 and a College Scholar Award for obtaining a semestral GPA of 1.25 to 1.50.[6]

Political career

Oakwood Mutiny

Trillanes was known for leading the 2003 Oakwood Mutiny when he and some 300 junior officers and enlisted men[7] of the Armed Forces of the Philippines took over the Oakwood towers in Makati City as protest for alleged rampant corruption in the Philippine government - in the Armed Forces of the Philippines in particular - and the prevalence of social injustice all over the country.[8] He was detained for almost seven and a half years after protesting against corruption.[9]

Manila Peninsula siege

Trillanes filed his certificate of candidacy on February 7, 2007, to run as an independent Senator even though he was detained for coup d'état. Later, he accepted an invitation from the Genuine Opposition party (GO) as one of its guest candidates to field against the Arroyo administration. He campaigned, though in jail, through the social networking site, Friendster. He was eventually proclaimed Senator-elect on June 15, 2007 by the Commission on Elections. He is the 2nd youngest senator after Benigno Aquino, Jr. elected at the age of 35 (his partymate Bam Aquino join him as youngest senator elected in 2013)

On July 23, 2007, Trillanes' motion for an "arrangement" with the Makati RTC that would allow him to fulfill his duties as a Senator while under detention, and to allow him to attend the SONA, remained unacted upon. A week after, judge Oscar Pimentel denied Trillanes's plea to be granted leave from detention to attend Senate sessions, and to set up an office inside Fort Bonifacio in Taguig City where he had been detained.[10] In response to Trillanes' continued imprisonment despite his election as Senator, former University of the Philippines president Francisco Nemenzo, Jr. and former vice president Teofisto Guingona, Jr. of civil society launched the "Paglingkurin si Trillanes [Let Trillanes Serve] Movement" in Pasay City on August 23, 2007. Akbayan Representative Risa Hontiveros, Ana Maria Nemenzo of the Freedom from Debt Coalition, opposition leader Jose Alcuaz, and Trillanes' spokesperson Sonny Rivera, were present.[11]

In the Senate election held in May 2007, Trillanes successfully launched a nationwide campaign from his prison cell as he ran and won a seat in the Philippine Senate on a shoestring budget.[1] He was elected to the Senate as guest candidate for the anti-administration[12] Genuine Opposition ticket, and assumed office on June 30, 2007. He made history[9] for being the first Philippine senator to be elected while in jail when more than 11 million people voted him into office on a strong anti-corruption advocacy.[1] On November 29, 2007, Trillanes, together with the soldiers facing coup d'état charges in connection with the 2003 Oakwood Mutiny, marched out of the courtroom while attending a hearing[13] towards the Peninsula Manila hotel in Makati City, to reiterate their call[14] for the ouster of then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.[15]

Notwithstanding calls from civil society groups to allow Trillanes to serve as Senator pursuant to his election, Judge Oscar Pimentel denied Trillanes's petition to attend Senate sessions on September 20, 2007, for lack of merit, ruling that his incarceration would not be a bar to fulfilling his duties as a Senator.[16] His petition, having been denied by the lower court, Senator Trillanes filed a petition with the Supreme Court of the Philippines, asking that his petition to be allowed to attend Senate sessions be granted. Representing him was his lawyer Reynaldo Robles. Included in said petition was a request that he be allowed to receive visitors in his jail at Fort Bonifacio.[17]

On October 17, 2007, the Supreme Court of the Philippines, in an en banc resolution, directed the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and Makati Regional Trial Court Judge Oscar Pimentel to comment within 10 days on Senator Antonio Trillanes IV's petition.[18] These requests were however later overshadowed by Trillanes' decision to stage another action against Gloria Arroyo's administration. On November 29, 2007, the senator led a siege, this time at the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati. After walking out of his court hearing, he and Brigadier General Danilo Lim led their supporters to the hotel where they staged their protest against the government, calling on the public to join them. Six hours later, after military teams surrounded the hotel and armored personnel carriers broke through the hotel's front doors, Senator Trillanes and his companions surrendered.

In 2010, under Proclamation 75, President Benigno Aquino III granted amnesty to Trillanes and other military personnel accused of trying to oust the Arroyo administration. He was able for the first time to enter the Senate and perform his duties as a senator.

Senate

On December 20, 2010, Trillanes was given provisional freedom pending the recognition of the court's amnesty declaration of President Benigno Aquino III.[19]

After formalizing his re-election bid in October 2012, Trillanes filed his certificate of candidacy for 2013 elections at the Commission on Elections main office in Manila. He is running under the banner of the Nacionalista Party, which is allied with the ruling Liberal Party in the 2013 midterm elections.[20] Trillanes was ranked ninth out of the out of the 12 winning senators. Trillanes was proclaimed senator-elect on May 20, 2013 by the Commission on Elections[21] with an official tally of 14,127,722 votes.[22]

In October 2012, Trillanes formalized his re-election bid, filing his certificate of candidacy at the main office of the Commission on Elections in Manila. He ran under the banner of the Nacionalista Party, which is allied with the ruling Liberal Party in the 2013 midterm elections.[23] He formed part of the umbrella coalition of the administration-backed senatorial line-up for the 2013 Philippine Senate election known as the Team PNoy.[24] Formally proclaimed as a Senator in May 2013,[25] Trillanes was re-elected by 14,127,722 Filipinos as per Comelec's official tally of votes.[22]

At the Senate, he is one of the most productive senators in terms of number bills, resolutions and committee reports filed,[26] totalling to 1,109 bills and resolutions, 56 of which have been passed into law from 2007 to present.[1]

During the 16th Congress (2013–present) he ranks 1st[27] based on the total number of:

During the 15th Congress (2010-2013) he ranked 1st[27] based on the total number of:

He has formally declared his intention to run for higher office as vice president in the coming 2016 national elections.[28] Trillanes, started his vice presidential campaign during the MAGDALO Coalition's general assembly at the Amoranto Sports Complex in Quezon City, last October 3. 2015. Trillanes and the Magdalo group has formally showed support to the presidential bid of fellow senator Grace Poe.[29]

Allegations of Collaborating with the Chinese

In a televised plenary debate in the Senate, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile publicly accused Trillanes of working for Chinese interest, in reference to the territorial dispute between the Philippines and China.[30] Posing as an informal emissary of the government of Benigno Aquino III, Trillanes allegedly wanted to rein in then Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario and prevent the United States from being involved in the regional dispute. Enrile then proceeded to read what he said were notes of Philippine Ambassador to China Sonia Brady about a meeting with Trillanes in Beijing, in which Trillanes allegedly told the Chinese that the Philippines cannot enforce its coastal protection, and that the Philippines does not have any vested interest in the Scarborough Shoal.[31] Senator Trillanes confirmed that he had been acting as "backchannel negotiator" with China for months, keeping then Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario out of the loop. [32]

Personal life

Trillanes is married to Arlene G. Orejana, a former member of the Philippine Military Academy corps of professors — a PMA Class 1997 graduate herself — and together they have had three children: Francis Seth, Thea Estelle, and Alan Andrew (who died at 21 days old).

In 2014, he finished the National and International Security Program at the Harvard Kennedy School[1] in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.[33]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Official Website of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. "ANTONIO "SONNY" F TRILLANES IV". Retrieved February 21, 2013.
  2. ↑ Official Facebook Page of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. "Antonio Sonny Trillanes IV Basic Info". Retrieved February 21, 2013.
  3. ↑ senate.gov.ph. "Senator Antonio "Sonny" F. Trillanes IV". Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  4. ↑ Merueñas, Mark (October 13, 2010). "Trillanes camp: Amnesty won’t set bad precedent". GMA News. Retrieved December 25, 2010.
  5. ↑ Official Facebook Page of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. "Antonio Sonny Trillanes IV Basic Info". Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  6. ↑ Senate of the Philippines' Official Website. "Senator Antonio "Sonny" F. Trillanes IV Biography". Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  7. ↑ gmanetwork.com. "Who is Antonio Trillanes IV?". Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  8. ↑ "magdalo.org, Magdalo History". Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  9. 1 2 People's Tonight. "P-Noy supports Trillanes!". Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  10. ↑ "GMA NEWS.TV, Makati court junks Trillanes plea to attend Senate sessions". Gmanews.tv. July 30, 2007. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
  11. ↑ "Inquirer.net, ‘Let Trillanes Serve Movement’ launched". Retrieved May 18, 2012.
  12. ↑ Paul Michael Jaramillo. "Trillanes joins Villar in Nacionalista Party". Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  13. ↑ Anna Liza T. Villas. "Court Defers Trillanes Hearing". Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  14. ↑ Jojo Malig. "Court Defers Trillanes Hearing". Retrieved February 20, 2013.
  15. ↑ Inquirer.net. "Trillanes: Filipinos celebrate rebellions". Retrieved November 28, 2007.
  16. ↑ "GMA NEWS.TV, Court rejects Trillanes appeal to attend Senate sessions". Gmanews.tv. September 20, 2007. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
  17. ↑ Abs-Cbn Interactive, Trillanes asks SC to allow him to attend Senate sessions
  18. ↑ "Inquirer.net, AFP, judge told to answer Trillanes’s bid to exercise duties". Retrieved May 18, 2012.
  19. ↑ gmanews.tv. "Makati court grants Trillanes temporary release". Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  20. ↑ Marc Cayabyab. " Trillanes formalizes Senate re-election bid". Retrieved March 5, 2013.
  21. ↑ Matikas Santos. " Trillanes receives certificate of proclamation from Comelec". Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  22. 1 2 Rappler. " Official tally of votes for the 2013 senatorial race". Retrieved October 14, 2013.
  23. ↑ Marc Cayabyab. " Trillanes formalizes Senate re-election bid ". Retrieved October 13, 2013.
  24. ↑ Team PNoy
  25. ↑ Matikas Santos. " Trillanes receives certificate of proclamation from Comelec ". Retrieved October 13, 2013.
  26. ↑ Mario Casayuran. " Trillanes is Senates most productive". Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  27. 1 2 Official Facebook Page of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. "Antonio Sonny Trillanes IV Page Info". Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  28. ↑ JDS GMA news. " Trillanes to run for higher office in 2016". Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  29. ↑ "Trillanes announces VP run, supports Poe's presidential bid". GMA News. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
  30. ↑ Bordadora, Cathy C. Yamsuan, Norman. "Enrile accuses Senator Trillanes of working for China". newsinfo.inquirer.net. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
  31. ↑ Macaraig, Ayee. rappler.com http://www.rappler.com/nation/12700-enrile,-trillanes-fight-over-china. Retrieved 2016-05-05. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  32. ↑ Santamaria, Carlos. rappler.com http://www.rappler.com/nation/18709-2012-yearender-ph-china-and-scarborough-shoal. Retrieved 2016-05-05. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  33. ↑ Harvard Kennedy School Official Website. "Harvard Kennedy School Contact Us". Retrieved May 5, 2015.

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