Loading ...Antonio Fuentes Trillanes IV (born August 6, 1971 in Manila, Philippines) is currently a detained Senator of the Republic of the Philippines.
He is best known for his leadership in the 2003 Oakwood Mutiny when he and a group of 321 soldiers took control over the Oakwood towers in Makati City as protest for alleged rampant corruption in the Philippine government and the Armed Forces of the Philippines in particular.
In the general election held in May 2007, Trillanes was elected to the Senate as guest candidate for the anti-government Genuine Opposition ticket, and assumed office on June 30, 2007. He is the first Philippine Senator to be elected while in jail.
On November 29, 2007, he abandoned his own trial and triggered a standoff at the Peninsula Manila hotel in Makati City, where he called for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s ouster.
Trillanes filed for certificate of candidacy on February 7, 2007, to run as an independent Senator even though he was detained for coup d’etat. Later, he accepted an invitation from the Genuine Opposition party (GO) to adopt Trillanes as one of its guest candidates to field against the Arroyo administration. He campaigned, though in jail, through an internet based social network, Friendster.
On June 15, 2007, Trillanes was eventually proclaimed Senator-elect by the Commission on Elections, after canvassing the certificates of canvass from Surigao del Norte, making him safe from being over-taken by any candidate. As expected, he was beleaguered by his opponents.
On July 23, 2007, Trillanes’ motion for an "arrangement" with the Makati RTC that would allow him to fulfill his duties as a Senator while under detention, and to allow him to attend the SONA, remained unacted upon. A week after, Judge Oscar Pimentel denied Trillanes’s plea to be granted leave from detention to attend Senate sessions, and to set up an office inside Fort Bonifacio in Taguig City where he had been detained.
On August 23, 2007, former University of the Philippines president Francisco Nemenzo, Jr. and former vice president Teofisto Guingona, Jr. of civil society launched the "Paglingkurin si Trillanes [Let Trillanes Serve] Movement" in Pasay City. Akbayan Representative Risa Hontiveros, Ana Maria Nemenzo of the Freedom from Debt Coalition, opposition leader Jose Alcuaz, and Trillanes’ spokesperson Sonny Rivera, were present.
On September 20, 2007, Judge Oscar Pimentel denied Trillanes’s petition to attend Senate sessions, for lack of merit, ruling that his incarceration would not be a bar to fulfilling his duties as a Senator.
On October 10, 2007, Antonio Trillanes IV filed a petition with the Supreme Court of the Philippines, asking for permission to attend Senate sessions. His lawyer was Reynaldo Robles. Trillanes also petitioned the court to allow him to receive visitors in his jail at Fort Bonifacio.
On October 17, 2007, the Supreme Court of the Philippines, in an en banc resolution, directed the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and Makati Regional Trial Court Judge Oscar Pimentel to comment within 10 days on Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s petition.
On November 29, 2007, Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV led another uprising, this time at the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati. After walking out of his court hearing, he and Brigadier General Danilo Lim led their supporters to the hotel where they staged their protest against the government, calling on the public to join them. Six hours later, after military teams surrounded the hotel and armored personnel carriers broke through the hotel’s front doors, Trillanes and his companions surrendered.
Other Information
- Name : Antonio Fuentes Trillanes IV
- Birthday : August 6, 1971
- Birthplace : Manila, Philippines
- Residence : Caloocan City
- Nationality : Filipino
- Political party : Genuine Opposition
- Schools Attended :
- Philippine Military Academy
- University of the Philippines
- Spouse(s) : Arlene G. Orejana
- Children :
- Francis Seth Trillanes
- Thea Estelle Trillanes
- Profession : Military/Soldier, Civil Servant
- Religion : Roman Catholic
Notable Events
- Manila Peninsula Incident (2007)
- U.S. Position (2007)
- Compromise (2007)
- Aftermath (2007)
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