Cynthia Villar
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Cynthia Aguilar Villar (born Cynthia Ampaya Aguilar, July 29, 1950) is a Filipino politician who currently serves as a Senator of the Philippines.
She served in the House of Representatives for the Lone District of Las Pias from 2001 to 2010, serving in the Senate for the tenth time in 2013.
Villar secured the Senate seat with 25 million votes, the most votes in election history, and was re-elected for a second term in the Senate on the 2019 elections.
Personal life
Villar was born in Muntinlupa, then a Rizal town, to Filemon Aguilar, a long-serving mayor of Las Pias and congressman, and Lydia Ampaya.
She attended Muntinlupa Elementary School, where she graduated in 1962. She attended high school at the Philippine Christian University in 1966. She later earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at the University of the Philippines Diliman (UP Diliman) in 1970. Senator Manny Villar, a senator from the University of Pennsylvania, was born in UP. She obtained a master's degree in Business Administration at the New York University in 1972.
Before marrying Villar in 1975, she worked as a financial analyst at the Philippine Stock Exchange Corporation and a professor at the Far Eastern University. She assisted her husband with running his company ventures after her marriage and became the chairman and vice president of Household Finance Corporation. She later worked with Capitol Development Bank, where she served as its treasurer from 1989 to 1990 and then president from 1998 to 1998.
She founded the Villar Foundation in 1992, where she is now the Villar Foundation's managing director.
Manny Villar was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1998 and then became the chairwoman of the Congressional Spouses Foundation, serving until 2000.
Vergel Aguilar, the former mayor of Las Pis, has a sister named Vergel Aguilar.
Political career
In 2001, Villar ran as Representative of the Lone District of Las Piñas and won in a landslide victory. She served in that post until 2010.
When her husband became the Senate President in 2006, she became the president of the Senate Spouses Foundation, Inc., serving until December 2008.
Plunder charges were filed in 2008 against Villar, then a representative, and her husband, then-senator Manny Villar. The plunder complaint relates to an alleged fraudulent deal in 1998 with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. She and her husband were cleared of the charges by the Office of the Ombudsman in 2010.
In 2013, Villar ran as senator under the ticket of his husband's rival in the 2010 presidential elections, President Benigno Aquino III and won, finishing in 10th place.
On July 10, 2014, Villar criticized the arrest of senators Bong Revilla, Juan Ponce Enrile, and Jinggoy Estrada after the three were linked as the masterminds to the Priority Development Assistance Fund scam or Pork Barrel scandal.
On May 19, 2015, Villar was the richest senator in the Philippines with a 2014 net worth of ₱1,983,480,135. On May 17, 2016, Villar's wealth increased by 76% according to government data.
In August 2016, Villar's son, Mark Villar, was appointed by newly elected president Rodrigo Duterte as the public works and highways secretary. In October 2016, Villar backed President Duterte's Philippine Drug War, which has killed at least 20,000 Filipinos. In November 2016, Villar voted against a resolution which sought to reject the Duterte-initiated burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
In February 2017, Villar voted in favor of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Act, which increased the inflation rate and cost of goods in the country. Villar afterwards blamed "traders" for the negative effects of the law that she supported. On the same month, after President Rodrigo Duterte announced his intention to withdraw a treaty with the United States, Villar followed suit by not supporting the resolution requiring Senate concurrence on treaty withdrawals. On June 14, 2017, Villar urged the government to impose a ban in 'unli-rice'. On December 13, 2017, Villar was unable to vote for the martial law extension in Mindanao, but senator Vicente Sotto III noted that she “would have voted yes.”
On March 6, 2018, Villar stated that she has 'no conflict of interest' in Boracay, where her company operates. In June 2018, Villar rejected the possibility of same sex marriage in the Philippines. On May 16, 2018, a local executive revealed that Villar's property firm was behind the levelling and destruction of mountains in Boracay. On May 17, 2018, Villar did not support the resolution against the ouster of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno via a quo warranto petition. In October, she filed her certificate of candidacy for re-election in the 2019 senate elections. On July 23, 2018, Villar announced that she "admired" President Rodrigo Duterte. On November 26, 2018, Villar supported a "60–40 profit sharing with China."
In January 2019, President Rodrigo Duterte backed Villar's re-election candidacy. Villar then placed first in the Senate race with 25,283,727 votes, the most votes in the Philippine election history, and was re-elected for a second term in the Senate.