Opposition leadership agent that monitors political climates and mobilizes resistance movements through strategic communication and coalition building.
Born into a political family, he rose rapidly through provin- - cial polities to become a senator at the age of 35. He was the principal opposition leader during the period of martial law, , declared by President FERDINAND MARCOS in 1972; it is generally ll accepted that if martial law had not been declared then, and . the 1973 presidential election thereby abandoned, he would have succeeded Marcos as president. Howe…