Honorific Prefix: | The Honorable |
Abigail Binay | |
Office: | Mayor of Makati |
1Namedata: | Monique Lagdameo |
Predecessor: | Kid Peña (acting) |
Birth Name: | Mar-len Abigail Sombillo Binay |
Birth Date: | December 12, 1975 |
Birth Place: | Quezon City, Philippines |
Party: | Nationalist People's Coalition (2024–present) Makatizens United Party (2021–present) |
Otherparty: | United Nationalist Alliance (2012–2021) PDP–Laban (2006–2012) |
Relations: | (sister) |
Children: | 1 |
Residence: | Makati |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Signature: | Abigail Binay Signature.svg |
Office1: | Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Makati's 2nd district |
Alma Mater: | University of the Philippines Los Baños (BS) Ateneo de Manila University (JD) |
Predecessor1: | Butz Aquino |
Successor1: | Luis Campos |
Termstart: | June 30, 2016 |
Termend1: | June 30, 2016 |
Termstart1: | June 30, 2007 |
Parents: | Jejomar Binay Elenita Binay |
Mar-len Abigail "Abby" Sombillo Binay-Campos (born December 12, 1975) is a Filipina lawyer and politician who has been the Mayor of Makati since 2016. She formerly served in the Congress as Representative of Makati's 2nd District from 2007 to 2016, when she was succeeded by her husband, Luis Campos. She is also the daughter of former Vice President Jejomar Binay.
Binay was born on December 12, 1975 in Quezon City,[1] as the second of five children and the second of four daughters of lawyer Jejomar Binay and Dr. Elenita Sombillo. She is the younger sister of Nancy Binay, a current Senator, and the older sister of Junjun Binay, the former mayor of Makati.
She studied at the University of the Philippines Los Baños and received her bachelor's degree in human ecology, majoring in human settlements planning. She continued to the Ateneo de Manila Law School, earning her law degree in 2001. She passed the Philippine Bar Examination in 2002.[2]
At a young age, Binay started her career at MABINI under former Senator Rene Saguisag as part of the defense counsel for the soldiers involved in the Oakwood mutiny.[3]
In 2007, she was elected representative of Makati's 2nd District, succeeding Butz Aquino and passed several bills under her watch.
In the wake of her brother Junjun's ouster as Makati mayor by the Ombudsman of the Philippines in 2015,[4] Binay announced her candidacy as Mayor of Makati, inviting fellow Makati representative Monique Lagdameo of the 1st district as vice mayor of the city competing with acting mayor Romulo Peña Jr. and Karla Mercado.[5]
On May 9, 2016, Binay and Lagdameo won the mayoral and vice-mayoral election, respectively.[6] They took their oath of office on June 27, 2016. Abby's first day as Mayor of Makati began three days later on June 30, and by that time her father's term as vice president already expired.
As a result, Binay is the fourth Binay family member, the second female Binay member to administer Makati in 15 years since her mother Elenita, who served as Makati mayor from 1998 to 2001. Overall, she is also the second female mayor of Makati. She was re-elected in 2019, wherein she also defeated her brother Junjun, and in 2022.
In 2023, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Binay to his Advisory Group on Local and Regional Governments, co-chaired by Pilar Cancela Rodríguez and Fatimatou Abdel Malick.[7]
On May 28, 2024, Binay took oath as a new member of the Nationalist People's Coalition.[8]
Binay is married to fellow lawyer Luis Jose Angel N. Campos Jr. since 2008. The began dating in 2004. Together, they have one daughter named Martina.[9]