Honorific-Prefix: | The Honorable |
Jose Antonio Sy-Alvarado | |
Office: | Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Bulacan's 1st district |
Term Start: | June 30, 2016 |
Term End: | June 30, 2022 |
Predecessor: | Victoria Sy-Alvarado |
Successor: | Danilo Domingo |
Birth Date: | 1983 1, mf=yes |
Birth Name: | Jose Antonio Reyes Sy-Alvarado |
Birth Place: | Hagonoy, Bulacan, Philippines |
Nationality: | Filipino |
Party: | PDP - Laban (2021 - present) |
Otherparty: | NUP (2018 - 2021) Liberal (2015 - 2018) |
Nickname: | Jonathan, Kuya Jose |
Father: | Wilhelmino Sy-Alvarado |
Mother: | Victoria Sy-Alvarado |
Alma Mater: | San Beda College |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Businessman |
Jose Antonio Reyes Sy-Alvarado (born January 7, 1983) is a Filipino politician and businessman who last served as a Member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, representing the 1st district of Bulacan from 2016 to 2022.
Sy-Alvarado earned a degree of Business Management major in Entrepreneurship at San Beda College.[1]
Sy-Alvarado ran for a Congress seat for the First district of Bulacan in the 2016 elections under the then-ruling Liberal Party. He succeeded his mother Victoria Sy-Alvarado. He was reelected for second term in 2019 under the National Unity Party.
During his term, he became the owner and backer of the Bulacan Kuyas, a basketball team that played in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League.
Sy-Alvarado, then chairman of the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability, is one of the 70 representatives who voted to deny the ABS-CBN franchise on July 10, 2020.[2] Due to the changes under new House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco, he was removed as the Good Government panel chair.[3] In January 2021, he was announced to be part of the new bloc "BTS sa Kongreso" (named after the K-pop boy band group BTS of South Korea), a coalition group formed by Taguig–Pateros Representative and former House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano during the 18th Congress.[4]
Sy-Alvarado ran for third and final term in 2022 but lost to former Malolos Mayor Danilo "DAD" Domingo.[5]
Jose Antonio is the son of politicians Wilhelmino Sy-Alvarado, who also served as the Governor of Bulacan from 2010 to 2019, and Victoria Sy-Alvarado, whom he succeeded as Representative of Bulacan's 1st congressional district after serving 3 terms from 2007 to 2016. He has 6 more siblings including Maria Rosario S. Mendoza, who currently serves as the vice mayor of Hagonoy, Bulacan.
Prior to serving in Congress, he once involved in a car accident which almost killed him.[6]