Joseph Estrada

Joseph Marcelo Ejercito (born April 19, 1937), better known as Joseph Ejercito Estrada, or Erap , the ninth president of the Republic of the Philippines or the 13th since the First Republic.

He was born in Tondo, Manila. Her son by Emilio Ejercito, Sr.., An engineer, and Maria Marcelo.

Film Director

Estrada stops college students to enter the field of Filipino films at the age of 21. He made ​​approximately 120 films, most of which are classified action-comedy where he hero fulfilling the role of those who are poor or low levels of society. She won some of the highest rewards and Grant Acting and being Director of the Movie.

Politics

Estrada entered the political arena in 1967 when he was elected Mayor of San Juan , Metro Manila . In 1971 , he honored as " Outstanding Mayor and Foremost Nationalist " of the Inter - Provincial Information Service and the following year as " Most Outstanding Metro Manila Mayor " of the Philippines Princetone Poll .

He was among those forced mayor took a successor Corazon C. Aquino as president of the Philippines after being deposed Ferdinand E. Mark the position on February 25 1986 by People Power Revolution .

Estrada ran under the Grand Alliance for Democracy party and successfully elected to the Senate of the Philippines ( Eighth Congress ) . Appointed him as Chairman of the committees on Cultural , Rural Development , and Public Works . He also became Vice Chairman of the Committees on Health, Natural Resources and Urban Planning . Among the bills she promoted are those concerning agriculture, irrigation projects and farming extension and protect the buffalo . In 1989 , he tinanghal Philippine Free Press as one of the " Three Outstanding Senators of the Year " . Estrada was one of the senators refused to sustain the new treaty by the U.S. military bases that would replace the Military Bases Agreement in 1947 scheduled to end in 1992 .

Helped greatly in winning him as Vice President his popularity as actors in the election of the Presidency and Vice Presidency in 1992 , although he is running on a separate ticket was winning President , Fidel Ramos . As Vice President , Estrada directed by the Commission Against Crime ( Presidential Anti- Crime Commission ) from 1992 to 1997.

President

Template: Expand-section In 1998, Estrada won the election under the party Masang Against Patriotic Association (LAMMP). He got 10,956,610 votes or 39.6% of all votes. "Erap For Hard" slogan in his campaign