Presidential Candidates

MARIA ANA CONSUELO “JAMBY” 

ABAD SANTOS MADRIGAL
 
Birth Date: April 26, 1958

Website: www.jambymadrigal.com

Educational Background:

Previous Party:    
Laban Demokratikong Pilipino
(2001 – 2007)
Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KNP)
Genuine Opposition (2007 - 2009)

Current Party:     Independent (2010)

 

TRACK RECORD / POSITIONS HELD IN GOVERNMENT:

Senator (2004 – Present)

• Currently the chairperson of the Committee on Environment and

Natural Resources, Committee on Youth, Women and Family
Relations, Committee on Cultural Communities and Committee
on Peace and Reconciliation

• Madrigal has worked for the protection of the environment and

has authored significant bills defending human rights and the
rights of women and children.  Under her chairmanship, the
landmark Magna Carta of Women law was finally enacted after
pending for more than a decade in Congress.  Likewise, she
successfully authored and passed the Anti-Child Pornography
Law.

• Sponsored bills advancing national economic interests, such as

the repeal of the Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act of
1998, as well as measures seeking to place LPG under price
control and for the recovery of PETRON and Malampaya.
• She voted against legislations such as the E-VAT law, the Ja-
pan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement treaty and
the Anti-Terrorism law.

• She recently filed a bill repealing RA 7942, the “Mining Act of

1995” and a bill for the imposition of a total log ban. Both bills
aim to protect the last remaining natural resources from whole-
sale plunder.

• She consistently criticized Manny Villar for his involvement in

the C5 insertion issue.

Undersecretary –
Department of Social Welfare and Development

• Presidential Adviser for Children’s Affairs (1999-2001)

She organized the First National Summit for Children in Malaca-

ñang Palace on October 26, 2000 where government agencies,
local government units, industry leaders and non-government
organizations signed a declaration of commitment upholding
Child 21 – a framework on which to anchor all action plans and
strategies relating to children.
 

STAND ON ISSUES:

Reproductive Health Bill:  She said that the choice of spouses of

family planning method should be respected. However, she doesn’t
advocate abortion as a means of population control.

Charter Change: She opposes the move of individuals for Charter

Change. She said that these moves “replace the nationalistic and
protectionist provisions in the Philippine Constitution”. She said that
if there is a need for Charter Change, it should be for expanding the
pro-Filipino provisions.

Peace in Mindanao: She believes that the resolution of the Min-

danao conflict can only be realized by having an independent and
industrialized economy and politics free from foreign control and
feudalism. “Mindanao should be developed along the lines of free-
dom from the ‘free market/free trade’ policies dictated by the IMF,
World Bank and World Trade Organization and other foreign agen-
cies.” she says.
Corruption:  “Anti-graft and corruption measures should focus on
the ‘big fish.’ Moreover, it should include the expose and punish-
ment of politicians for promoting and upholding ‘free market’ and
‘free trade ‘policies that back up the foreign plunder and underde-
velopment of the Philippine economy.”

Education: She will support Philippine Education by cancelling and

rechanneling at least 160 billion in annual foreign debt and trade
payments to the public education budget. By doing so, she believes
that the government can give free education for Filipinos. But be-
yond providing the poor easy access to quality education, she be-
lieves that “we need to provide more substance and depth to the
education of the Filipino people in genuine nationalism.”

Environment: “Foreign companies and governments as well as the

politicians who have protected them should be charged and penal-
ized for destroying the Philippine environment for the past century.”

Economy: She believes that the only way to free the country from
poverty and underdevelopment is by creating an economy that is
pro-Filipino industrialization and agrarian social justice. She also
believes that the country must break away from exploitative poli-
cies dictated by the International Monetary Fund and World Trade
Organization. She also believes that the Philippines need nation-
alistic policies that will prioritize Philippine natural and human re-
sources.