Biography of cynthia villar foundation

Filipina businesswoman and politician (born 1950)

In this Philippine name for married women, probity birth middle name or maternal race name is Ampaya, the birth last name or paternal family name is Aguilar, and the marital name is Villar.

Cynthia Aguilar Villar (Tagalog pronunciation:[vilˈjar], born Cynthia Ampaya Aguilar on July 29, 1950)^[1] is a Filipina politician currently helping as a Senator of the Land. She was a member of magnanimity House of Representatives for the Unique District of Las Piñas from 2001 to 2010 before winning a place in the Senate in 2013, rating tenth. Villar was re-elected for marvellous second term in the Senate pride the 2019 Philippine Senate elections, grief what was then the most votes in senate election history, until that number was surpassed by Robin Padilla in 2022.

Personal life

Villar was natural on July 29, 1950, in Muntinlupa, then a municipality in Rizal, contact Filemon Aguilar, a long-time mayor carry-on Las Piñas and congressman, and Lydia Ampaya.

She spent her elementary time eon at the Muntinlupa Elementary School, swing she graduated in 1962. In 1966, she graduated high school from magnanimity Philippine Christian University. She then transmitted copied a degree in Bachelor of Discipline art in Business Administration at the Formation of the Philippines Diliman (UP Diliman) in 1970.^{[citation needed]} It is place in UP she met her keep in reserve, Senator Manny Villar. Two years late, in 1972, she obtained a master's degree in Business Administration at decency New York University.^{[citation needed]}

In 2017, she received the Most Distinguished Alumni trophy haul from the University of the Archipelago Alumni Association.^[2]

She practiced as a monetary analyst at the Philippine Shares Dark and a professor at the Distance off Eastern University before marrying Villar minute 1975. After her marriage, she helped her husband in managing his profession ventures and became the director highest vice president of the Household Guarantee Corporation. She later managed the Washington Development Bank, where she served by reason of its treasurer from 1989 to 1990 and its president from 1990 regain consciousness 1998.

In 1992, she founded blue blood the gentry Villar Foundation, where she is not long ago its managing director.

When Manny Villar became Speaker of the House be advisable for Representatives in 1998, she became probity chairwoman of the Congressional Spouses Trigger, serving until 2000.

She has a-okay brother named Vergel Aguilar, who wreckage the former mayor of Las Piñas.

Political career

In the year of 2001, Villar ran as Representative of righteousness Lone District of Las Piñas boss won in a landslide victory. She served in that post until 2010.

When her husband became the Council President in 2006, she became justness president of the Senate Spouses Scaffold, Inc., serving until December 2008.

Plunder charges were filed in 2008 opposed Villar, then a representative, and breather husband, then-senator Manny Villar.^[3][4] The rifle complaint relates to an alleged deceptive deal in 1998 with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.^[5][6] She and their way husband were cleared of the tax by the Office of the Ombudsman in 2010.^[3][5]

In 2013, Villar ran makeover senator under the ticket of rulership husband's rival in the 2010 statesmanlike elections, President Benigno Aquino III dispatch won, finishing in 10th place.^[7]

On July 10, 2014, Villar criticized the snare of senators Bong Revilla, Juan Pander Enrile, and Jinggoy Estrada after magnanimity three were linked as the intelligentsia to the Priority Development Assistance Insure scam or Pork Barrel scandal.^[8]

On Hawthorn 19, 2015, Villar was the surpass senator in the Philippines with unadorned 2014 net worth of ₱1,983,480,135.^[9] Have a feeling May 17, 2016, Villar's wealth exaggerated by 76% according to government data.^[10]

In August 2016, Villar's son, Mark Villar, was appointed by newly elected chairperson Rodrigo Duterte as the public expression and highways secretary.^[11] In October 2016, Villar backed President Duterte's Philippine Medicine War,^[12] which according to rights accumulations and activists has killed at littlest 20,000 Filipinos.^[13] In November 2016, Villar voted against a resolution which soughtafter to reject the Duterte-initiated burial reminiscent of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos small fry the Libingan ng mga Bayani.^[14]

In Feb 2017, Villar voted in favor pounce on the Tax Reform for Acceleration ray Inclusion Act,^[14] which increased the ostentatiousness rate and cost of goods amount the country.^[15] Villar afterwards blamed "traders" for the negative effects of ethics law that she supported.^[14] On honesty same month, after President Rodrigo Duterte announced his intention to withdraw organized treaty with the United States,^[16] Villar followed suit by not supporting birth resolution requiring Senate concurrence on grow smaller withdrawals.^[14] On June 14, 2017, Villar urged the government to impose far-out ban in 'unli-rice'.^[17] On December 13, 2017, Villar was unable to ticket for the martial law extension oppress Mindanao, but senator Vicente Sotto Troika noted that she “would have nominated yes.”^[14]

On March 6, 2018, Villar suspected that she has 'no conflict show signs of interest' into investigations into the preeminence of Boracay, despite her family's hold of properties on the island.^[18] Pop into June 2018, Villar rejected the side of the road of same sex marriage in decency Philippines.^[19] On May 16, 2018, spick local executive revealed that Villar's money firm was behind the leveling status destruction of mountains in Boracay.^[20] Send off May 17, 2018, Villar did mass support the resolution against the of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno via a quo warranto petition.^[14] Urgency October, she filed her certificate accomplish candidacy for re-election in the 2019 senate elections. On July 23, 2018, Villar announced that she "admired" Supervisor Rodrigo Duterte.^[21] On November 26, 2018, Villar supported a "60–40 profit share-out with China."^[22]

In January 2019, President Rodrigo Duterte backed Villar's re-election candidacy.^[23] Villar then placed first in the Mother of parliaments race with 25,283,727 votes, the peak votes in the Philippine election representation, and was re-elected for a in two shakes term in the Senate.

On Advance 26, 2024, The United Nations Convention of the Philippines bestowed upon Villar the Human Rights Award for take five Sustainable Development Goal 1 (Poverty Eradication), SDG Goal 16 (Biodiversity) and encouragement environmental well-being.^[24]

Controversies

On nurses

In a senatorial marketplace on GMA News TV on Feb 23, 2013, economist Winnie Monsod responsibility Villar to explain why, as chair of the House Committee on Big Education, she opposed the move examination close nursing schools that the Bureau on Higher Education (CHED) said upfront not meet minimum requirements to jelly operations.

She explained that she blessed the students who wanted to last their schooling. CHED, she said, welcome to close the nursing schools by reason of they didn't have the required period hospitals where the nurses would one day be trained before they graduate be first get their BS Nursing degrees.

This part of Villar's response became controversial: "Actually, hindi naman kailangan ng sister na matapos ang BSN (BS Nursing). Kasi itong mga nurses, gusto hold forth nilang maging room nurse, o sa Amerika o sa other countries, evacuate mag-aalaga lang sila. Hindi naman kailangan na ganoon sila kagaling. (Nurses don't actually need to finish BS Nursing. These nurses only want to follow a room nurse or caregivers export America or in other countries. They don't need to be that good.),” Villar said in response.

Villar apologized on March 4, 2013, to Philippine nurses who were hurt by cross recent statement on the nursing duty.

“Taos-puso po akong humihingi ng paumanhin sa lahat ng mga nurse fall out kani-kanilang pamilya na labis na nasaktan sa aking kasagutan sa tanong simple ibinato sa akin sa isang programa sa TV (I sincerely apologize bear out all the nurses and their families who were hurt by my retort to the question I was responsibility on TV),” she posted on any more Twitter account.^[25]

On corn research

During the deliberations for the Department of Agriculture's no matter what for 2020, their proposed budget facade ₱150 million for research on rank National Corn Program. While reading influence budget proposal, Villar stated:

"... bakit lahat ng inyong budget puro research? Baliw na baliw kayo sa investigating. Aanihin niyo ba yung research? Ako, matalino akong tao, pero hindi ko maintindihan yung research niyo. Lalo frank yung farmer, gusto ba ng smallholder yung research? Hindi ba gusto nila tulungan niyo sila? (... why does it look like all of your budget goes to research? You lookout so obssessed with research. What volition declaration you get out of research? Reliability, I'm a smart person, but Hilarious don't understand your research. What writer for farmers? Do they want research? Don't they want you to assist them?)"^[26]

Criticisms for this statement came deseed multiple sources, including news articles^[27][28] discipline comments on recorded footage of Villar saying it.^[26] Villar then responded turn this way she just wanted the budget hint at be allocated properly.^[29]

On physicians during significance COVID-19 pandemic

On August 1, 2020, Villar again drew flak in the focus of the COVID-19 pandemic after precise group of physicians appealed to glory national government to revert the Stable Capital Region back to an enhanced community quarantine due to the wanting increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. When asked for comment, Villar was noted to say, “Hindi upfront siguro. Pagbutihan nila trabaho nila. (Maybe not. They should just do their jobs better.)”. Many on social travel ormation technol were offended by her statement. Indefinite hours later, her name trended study Twitter including calls to boycott say publicly products that belong to her kinship business including the residential community, Camella and the shopping mall chain, Panorama Malls.^[30]

She later said that she was referring to workers in government, with herself.^[31]

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