Prime Minister of the Philippines
| Prime Minister of the Philippines
Punong Ministro ng Pilipinas | |
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 Seal of the Prime Minister (1981–1986) | |
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| Style | Prime Minister (informal) The Honourable (formal) His Excellency (formal, diplomatic) |
| Type | Head of government |
| Status | Abolished |
| Member of | |
| Appointer | The President with members' advice and consent |
| Precursor | Office established (pre-1899) President of the Philippines (1978) |
| Formation | January 2, 1899 (first creation) June 12, 1978 (second creation) |
| First holder | Apolinario Mabini y Maranan (first creation) Ferdinand Marcos (second creation) |
| Final holder | Salvador H. Laurel |
| Abolished | November 13, 1899 (first abolition)
March 25, 1986 (second abolition) |
| Succession | President of the Philippines (1899–1978; 1986-present) |
The prime minister of the Philippines (Filipino: Punong Ministro ng Pilipinas) was the official job of the head of the government (whereas the President of the Philippines was the head of state) of the Philippines from 1978 until the People Power Revolution in 1986.
A limited version of this office existed for a short time in 1899 during the First Philippine Republic.
List of prime ministers[change | change source]
| # | Name (Birth–Death) |
Party | Took office | Left office | President | Legislature | Era | ||
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| 1 | Apolinario Mabini (1864–1903) |
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Non-partisan | January 2, 1899 | January 23, 1899 | Emilio Aguinaldo | Malolos Congress | Revolutionary Government | |
| January 23, 1899 | May 7, 1899 | First Republic | |||||||
| 2 | Pedro A. Paterno (1857–1911) |
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May 8, 1899 | November 13, 1899 | |||||
| Office abolished November 14, 1899—October 14, 1943 | |||||||||
| - | Jorge B. Vargas (1890–1980) |
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Nacionalista Party | October 14, 1943 | August 17, 1945 | Jose P. Laurel | National Assembly | Second Republic | |
| Office abolished October 14, 1943—June 12, 1978 | |||||||||
| 3 | Ferdinand E. Marcos (1917-1989) |
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KBL | June 12, 1978 | June 30, 1981 | Ferdinand E. Marcos | Interim Batasang Pambansa | Martial law | |
| 4 | Cesar E. A. Virata (1930– ) |
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July 28, 1981 | July 23, 1984 | Fourth Republic | ||||
| July 23, 1984 | February 25, 1986 | Regular Batasang Pambansa | |||||||
| 5 | Salvador H. Laurel (1986–1986) |
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UNIDO | February 25, 1986 | March 25, 1986 | Corazon C. Aquino | |||
| Defunct The presidential system is used; the President is head of both state and government by virtue of the 1987 Constitution | |||||||||
More readings[change | change source]
- Case, William (2002), Politics in Southeast Asia: Democracy or Less, Routledge, ISBN 0-7007-1636-X ISBN 978-0-7007-1636-4
- Celoza, Albert F. (1997), Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines: the Political Economy of Authoritarianism, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0-275-94137-X ISBN 978-0-275-94137-6
- Guevara, Sulpicio (1972), The Laws of the First Philippine Republic (The Laws of Malolos), 1898-1899, Manila: National Historical Commission Digitally archived and reproduced at the University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States since 2005.
- Hunt, Michael H.; Levine, Steven I. (2012), Arc of Empire: America's Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam, Univ of North Carolina Press, ISBN 978-0-8078-3528-9
- Kalaw, Maximo Manguiat (1927), "Appendix C. Aguinaldo's Proclamation of June 23, 1898, Establishing the Revolutionary Government", The Development of Philippine Politics, Oriental commercial, retrieved 2011-04-15
