the boxer-turned-senator, 42, gave up his storied fighting career this year to focus on politics. He promises to root out corruption and address poverty and is hoping to win over voters by harnessing his enormous popularity as a boxing champion. The tactic has worked before: first when he ran for congress and then for his seat in the upper house senate.
Critics say he has been largely absent in both houses and short of ideas when he does attend. Pacquiao filed his papers under the Cebu-based party PROMDI. While he is technically the president of the ruling party PDP-Lakban, an internal struggle with Duterte over control of that party has cast his status in doubt. The election commission will start hearings on the issue next week.
Education
Biography
2019
YES, it's a fake degree, at least according to the material thus far accessible, unless Sen. Manuel Pacquiao and the University of Makati (UMak), which awarded him the degree, explain differently.
Pacquiao received a bachelor of science degree in political science from the UMak in December 2019 after a year of study (not three months) there. After its longstanding president Tomas Lopez passed away in February 2019, UMak's president at the time was Abigail Binay, also Makati's mayor.
UMak, on the other hand, is not permitted to award the senator's kind of bachelor's degree.
read here: https://www.manilatimes.net/2021/07/05/opinion/columns/is-pacquiaos-college-degree-fake/1805750
1His full name is Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao
2) His byname is Pac-Man
3) His Birth Date is December 17, 1978 (Age 42)
4) His Hometown is in Kibawe, Bukidnon province, Mindanao, Philippines
5) His Net Worth as of 2021 is $375 Million
housing/
disaster projects
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — Sen. Manny Pacquiao made a surprise visit to Benguet on Tuesday to extend financial assistance to the family of the three young siblings who perished during a landslide triggered by the heavy rains due to Typhoon Maring a few weeks ago.
He also distributed relief assistance to those who were affected by the recent typhoon in La Trinidad, Benguet.
poverty reduction
Pacquiao vows to fight poverty: In his acceptance speech as presidential candidate for PDP-Laban’s Pimentel wing, Pacquiao said he knows the face of poverty as he lived it. Poverty molded his resolve as a person, said Pacquiao. “Si Manny Pacquiao na kasama ninyo ngayon ay dumaan sa lahat ng klaseng sakit at sakripisyo, maiahon lang ang pamilya mula sa kahirapan,” the senator said. World boxing champion and Sarangani Congressman Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao expressed his full support to the antipoverty programs being implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development. Secretary Soliman assured Congressman Pacquiao that “DSWD will continue to deliver programs and services to the poor and deserving beneficiaries in Sarangani, recognizing that it is one of the poorest provinces.”
Bills Authored
These are: Republic Act No. 10777 – An Act declaring Sept. 1 of every year a special nonworking holiday in the province of North Cotabato in commemoration of its founding anniversary; Republic Act No. 10679 – An Act promoting entrepreneurship and financial literacy program among the Filipino youth by instituting mechanisms and strategies; and Republic Act No. 10699 – An Act expanding the coverage of incentives granted to national athletes and coaches and appropriating funds, repealing for the purpose Republic Act No. 9064, also known as the National Athletes, Coaches and Trainers Benefits and Incentives Act of 2001.
Pacquiao is one of the top absentee congressmen. – With Janvic Mateo
Covid Response
MANILA — The Philippine government has mismanaged its response to the COVID-19 outbreak, with the situation only getting worse more than a year into the pandemic, Senator Manny Pacquiao said Monday.
"Sa tingin ko, hindi naman naresolba ang pandemya. Lalo pang lumala. Pataas pa nang pataas ang bilang ng mga cases ng may infected, COVID. Talagang mismanaged. I'm sorry to say this but 'yun 'yung nararamdaman ko," Pacquiao, once an ally of the administration, told TeleRadyo.
He had flagged possible corruption in the government's spending for the COVID-19 crisis, naming the Department of Health in particular, and sought for a probe into the agency's purchase of personal protective equipment and test kits at the height of the country’s COVID-19 fight.
In Monday's interview, Pacquiao said the government should focus on inoculating Filipinos to reduce COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in the face of highly contagious variants.
Covid Response
"Dapat mag-focus tayo sa massive vaccination dahil 'yan po ang nakikita ko sa ibang bansa [kung] bakit sila nakapagbalik to normal na ang pamumuhay nila. Dahil 'yung focus nila is to vaccinate the people," he said.
The partnership will concentrate on reaching highly vulnerable young people across Cebu, with the initial commitment from the MPF going to directly support FundLife’s ‘Girls Got This’ COVID-19 emergency programming, to reach highly vulnerable girls across Cebu and Leyte. With schools closed to face-to-face learning for over 400 days and the economic fallout of COVID-19 has put thousands of vulnerable youth in an added education emergency.
FundLife's ‘Girls Got This: Resiliency in Action (GGT:RIA) is a COVID-19 emergency response comprising several local NGOs working to reach the most girls through access to ‘safe-at-home’ packs and provide digital vocational training to build resiliency and employment opportunities. The donation follows support from MPF for International Women’s Month to raise awareness about the ongoing impact COVID-19 is having on adolescent girls.