Presentation

1. Senators of the Philippines
Nancy Binay

2. Nancy Binay
Maria Lourdes "Nancy" Sombillo Binay-Angeles[1] (born May 12,
1973)[2] is a Filipina politician serving as a Senator since 2013. She is
the daughter of former Vice President Jejomar Binay. Without any
prior experience in government, Binay placed a bid for a seat in the
Senate in the 2013 elections and won, placing fifth overall. After being
elected, Binay chaired both the Cultural Communities and the Tourism
committees of the Senate in the 17th Congress. Binay was re-elected
in the 2019 elections for a second consecutive term.

3. Education
Binay pursued her elementary and secondary education at St.
Scholastica's College, Manila.[3] She entered the University of the
Philippines Diliman in June 1991, where she initially studied
economics before earning a Bachelor of Science in Tourism
degree, graduating in 1997

4. Political career
Nancy Binay is the eldest daughter of the former vice president of the
Philippines, Jejomar C. Binay[4][5][6][7] and Dr. Elenita Binay. Nancy Binay is also the
older sister of Abigail Binay, the current mayor of Makati, and Jejomar Binay, Jr.,
former mayor of Makati.[1][4]
Between 1998 and 2001, Binay performed administrative duties as a personal
assistant to her mother,[5][7] liaising between the Mayor's office and other
governmental departments and offices as well as with the private sector. From
2010 she functioned as personal assistant to her father,[1][4][5][7] who was the vice
president at the time. In this role, she liaised between the Office of the Vice
President and the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, as well
as with other local government offices. In 2012, she was listed as one of the top 20
potential senatorial candidates for the UNA

5. Senate
On October 5, 2012 Binay replaced Joey de Venecia to run for
senator in the 2013 elections.[1][4][5][8] De Venecia had earlier
withdrawn his candidacy from the UNA's ticket.[9][4] Binay is a member
of the same party, which was also her father's coalition,[9] and she
became the party's Deputy Secretary General.[10] Leading up to her
selection as a senatorial candidate for the alliance, Binay consistently
ranked in the top 12 in the Pulse Asia November 2012 survey, which
ranked the popularity of potential candidates.

6. Binay is a child advocate. The charitable foundations with
which she has been involved are geared towards caring for
abandoned children and providing educational opportunities
for the less fortunate. Her main platform for the 2013 Senate
elections was for improving the outlook for pregnant women,
particularly those of poor economic status, as a means of
improving infant mortality and health.

7. Binay did not attend any of the public debates for the
senatorial candidates, noted pundit Prospero De Vera,
"preferring to engage in debate when she's already in the
Senate."[14]
She was selected as the 12th senatorial nominee for
the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) for the 2013 senatorial
race. She won and became a senator in the 16th Congress.

8. 16th Congress
Binay won in the 2013 senatorial elections, placing 5th place. She has been
criticized for her silence on controversial issues regarding her father from 2013 to
2016, when her father Jejomar Binay, was the vice president of the Philippines, and
her opposition to the anti-political dynasty bill as she is part of a political dynasty
in Makati, where her father, mother, and brother have become mayors. During the
16th Congress, she filed 119 bills and 151 resolutions advocating the interests of
women and children, the youth, the elderly, and housing for the poor. Among her
bills that passed into law were An Act Repealing the Crime of Premature Marriage
under Article 251 of the Revised Penal Code (R.A. 10655), Sugarcane Industry
Development Act of 2015 (R.A. 10659), and An Act Expanding the Benefits and
Privileges of Persons with Disability (R.A. 10754).

9. She also sponsored the passage of the Centenarians Act of
2016 (R.A. 10868).[16] She aided in the presidential bid of her father
during the 2016 Philippine presidential race. Her father, who initially
placed 1st, eventually lost and placed 4th on election day.[17] Binay
has been cyber-bullied by numerous Filipino social media comedic
accounts due to her fashion sense during the annual SONA and her
natural Filipino skin color, to a point that she has been compared with
the Black Nazarene. She retaliated stating, 'I was born this way. We
should just accept who we are'

10. 17th Congress
In the 17th Congress, Binay supported the Anti-discrimination bill based on
SOGIE[19] which protected the rights of Filipino LGBT citizens, the Mental Health
Act[20] which establishes a nationwide mental health campaign and inputting of
mental health education in the Filipino educational system, the Department of
Culture bill[21] which aims to establish a holistic culture department, and the Free
Higher Education Law[22] which provides free education in all public colleges and
universities in the Philippines. She was co-sponsor of the Expanded Maternity
Leave Law of 2017 (SB No. 1305) which grants 120-day maternity leave to female
workers regardless of civil status, and The Filipino Sign Language Act (SB No.
1455), which declares the Filipino Sign Language as the national sign language of
the Filipino deaf and the official sign language of the government in all transactions
with the deaf.