Press Release
May 13, 2018

Condolences from Sen. Francis Pangilinan and family to the family of former Senate President Edgardo Angara

Our deepest sympathies to the family of former Senate President Edgardo Angara for their loss. SEJA, as he was known to many, was one of the senior legislators we looked up to in the Senate.

My first encounter with him was when we both sat as members of the University of the Philippines Board of Regents in 1986 -- he was UP president and I was chairman of the UP Student Council.

Little did we know that 15 years later, we would be colleagues in the Senate, pushing for causes we believed would better our country and the lives of our countrymen. One law we worked together on was the Judiciary Compensation and Modernization Act, which increased the judges' pay in order to fill the many vacancies in the judiciary and consequently speed up the wheels of justice.

God speed, SEJA!

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