STATEMENT ON THE PASSING OF FORMER SENATE
PRESIDENT JOVITO SALONGA

I was never old enough to vote for former Senate President Jovito Salonga but I've read some of his books. An intellectual and political titan, he was the last of that generation of statesmen along with Jose Diokno and Ninoy Aquino. He topped the Senate race thrice, topped the bar after World War II, and one of the few to do postgrad studies at UP, Harvard and Yale. Rest in peace, Senator Salonga.