President
see also: List of Presidents of the Philippines and List of Unofficial Presidents of the Philippines
- Philippine Revolution to Present
- Status:
- First to Held the Post: Andres Bonifacio (Disputed)/Emilio Aguinaldo (Officially)
The President of the Philippines is the head of state and government of the Republic of the Philippines. The President of the Philippines in Filipino is referred to as Ang Pangulo or Pangulo ("Presidente," informally). The executive power is vested in the President of the Philippines.
Andres Bonifacio was President/Supremo of the insurgent Tagalog Republic revolutionary government from 1896–97. Emilio Aguinaldo was President of the insurgent Philippine Republic revolutionary government from 1899-1902. The Philippine government recognizes Emilio Aguinaldo as "President of the First Republic".
The incumbent President is Benigno S. Aquino III.
Read more about this topic: Philippine Heads Of State And Government
Famous quotes containing the word president:
“The President has apples on the table
And barefoot servants round him, who adjust
The curtains to a metaphysical t
And the banners of the nation flutter, burst
On the flag-poles in a red-blue dazzle, whack
At the halyards.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“You don’t need to know who’s playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles.”
—James Baker (b. 1930)
“I don’t have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or that issue. I don’t think any of us would challenge that. I do have a problem with the singular focus on this, as if that’s the only standard by which we ought to judge a president. What we learned in the last administration was how little having an encyclopedic grasp of all the facts has to do with governing.”
—David R. Gergen (b. 1942)