About Teofisto Guingona Jr.
Teofisto "Tito" Tayko Guingona Jr. (born July 4, 1928) is a Filipino statesman and diplomat who served as the 11th vice president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2004, during the first term of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Born in San Juan (now a part of Metro Manila), he is a graduate of Ateneo de Manila University, where he was a working student. Guingona was an active opposition figure during the martial law period under President Ferdinand Marcos, being jailed multiple times. After the assassination of Ninoy Aquino in 1983, Guingona joined his brother Butz Aquino in attending rallies and forming the organization BANDILA in 1985. After the People Power Revolution, Guingona was appointed as chairman of the Commission on Audit by then newly installed President Corazon Aquino in 1986 until 1987, when he was elected as a senator of the Philippines under the coalition of Lakas ng Bayan, led by Aquino. While a senator, he also served as the director and chairman of the Mindanao Development Authority and the Mindanao Labor Management Advisory Council. He won in the reelections in 1992 and became the majority leader a year after, but his term ended prematurely when newly elected President Fidel V. Ramos appointed him as executive secretary from 1993 until 1995 and as justice secretary from 1995 until 1998. He was re-elected to the Senate again as a minority leader from 1998 until 2001. Guingona was appointed vice president of the Philippines and secretary of foreign affairs by President Arroyo, after she assumed the presidency from the vice presidency after the ousting of President Joseph Estrada in the aftermath of the Second EDSA Revolution, making Guingona the only vice president who was not nationally elected to the position. When Guingona's term ended, he decided not to seek a full term election at the 2004 Philippine presidential election and was succeeded by Noli de Castro. He founded SANDATA and became the honorary chairman of BANDILA, two mass-based organizations dedicated to social and economic reforms.
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