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Duterte nominates Miriam Santiago for highest civil service award

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Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/12/06/miriam.jpg"/><figcaption>Former Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago. File Photo</figcaption></figure></div>MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte has nominated the late Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago for Quezon Service Cross, the highest award the republic accords its civil servants.Malacañang confirmed that it has transmitted the nomination letter to Congress signed by Duterte on November 20.Senators Grace Poe and Sonny Angara earlier filed separate resolutions &quot;urging&quot; the President to confer the award on Santiago, who had &quot;dedicated her life to public service through her work in all the branches of government: judicial, executive, and legislative.&quot;According to the Official Gazette, the Quezon Service Cross is unique in that the President nominates Filipino citizens for the award and the conferment has to be approved by Congress.There have been five recipients of the Quezon Service Cross since its creation in 1946, namely revolutionary Emilio Aguinaldo, diplomat Carlos P. Romulo, the late President Ramon Magsaysay, slain Senator and martial law opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr., and the late Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo.The award was given to Magsaysay, Aquino, and Robredo after their deaths.Santiago, known for her fiery and impassioned interpellations at the Senate and funny pickup lines in speeches, spent much of her life in public service. She died at the age of 71 on September 29, 2016.She served as presiding judge of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court, immigration commissioner, agrarian reform secretary, and senator from 1995 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2016.Among laws Santiago authored were The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act, The Data Privacy Act, The Cybercrime Prevention Act, The Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act, The Anti-Bullying Act, An Act Restructuring the Excise Tax on Alcohol and Tobacco Products, The Fair Competition Law, The Intellectual Property Code, The Oil Pollution Compensation Act, The Biofuels Act, The Anti-Torture Act, and the The Magna Carta of Women.Santiago was the first Filipino to be elected judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC), based in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2011. She, however, let go of her post in 2014 due to chronic fatigue syndrome.The tough-talking senator also received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service, the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize, &quot;for bold and moral leadership in cleaning up a graft-ridden government agency&quot; when she sat as Immigration chief in 1988.

President Rodrigo Duterte has nominated the late Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago for Quezon Service Cross, the highest award the republic accords its civil servants.

President Rodrigo Duterte has nominated the late Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago for Quezon Service Cross, the highest award the republic accords its civil servants.

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Duterte nominates Miriam Santiago for highest civil service award

Dharel Placido,

ABS-CBN News

Published December 06, 2017 02:08 PM PHT

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