2. Jose Antonio Sy-Alvarado
• Jose Antonio Reyes Sy-Alvarado (born January 7,
1983) is a Filipino politician and businessman who last
served as a Member of the House of Representatives of
the Philippines, representing the 1st district of
Bulacan from 2016 to 2022.
4. Political career
• Congressional stint (2016-2022)
• Sy-Alvarado ran for a Congress seat for the First
district of Bulacan in the 2016 elections under the
then-ruling Liberal Party. He succeeded his
mother Victoria Sy-Alvarado. He was reelected for
second term in 2019 under the National Unity Party.
5. • During his term, he became the owner and backer of the Bulacan Kuyas, a
basketball team that played in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League.
• Sy-Alvarado, then chairman of the House Committee on Good Government and
Public Accountability, is one of the 70 representatives who voted to deny the ABS-
CBN franchise on July 10, 2020.[2] Due to the changes under new House
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco, he was removed as the Good Government panel
chair.[3] In January 2021, he was announced to be part of the new bloc "BTS sa
Kongreso" (named after the K-pop boy band group BTS of South Korea), a coalition
group formed by Taguig–Pateros Representative and former House Speaker Alan
Peter Cayetano during the 18th Congress.[4]
• Sy-Alvarado ran for third and final term in 2022 but lost to former Malolos Mayor
Danilo "DAD" Domingo.
6. Personal life
• Jose Antonio is the son of politicians Wilhelmino Sy-Alvarado, who
also served as the Governor of Bulacan from 2010 to 2019,
and Victoria Sy-Alvarado, whom he succeeded as Representative
of Bulacan's 1st congressional district after serving 3 terms from
2007 to 2016. He has 6 more siblings including Maria Rosario S.
Mendoza, who currently serves as the vice mayor of Hagonoy,
Bulacan.
• Prior to serving in Congress, he once involved in a car accident
which almost killed him.
