Luzviminda Tancangco Explained

Luzviminda Tancangco
Office:Chairman of the Commission on Elections
Status:Acting
Term Start:October 8, 1998
Term End:January 10, 1999
Predecessor:Bernardo P. Pardo
Successor:Harriet Demetriou
Appointer:Joseph Estrada
Office2:Commissioner of the Commission on Elections
Term Start2:August 5, 1998
Term End2:February 2, 2004
Appointer2:Joseph Estrada
Nationality:Filipino
Blank1:Affiliation
Data1:Tau Gamma Sigma
Birth Place:Bustos, Bulacan

Luzviminda Gaba Tancangco is the first non-lawyer woman commissioner of the Philippine Commission on Elections. She was also its first female acting chairman (1998–1999).

Service

She served from 1998 to 2004,[1] and is one of the six women to have been appointed to the Commission as of 2014.

Controversies

GMANews.TV reported that in August 2002, "NAMFREL and other civil society organizations" filed an "impeachment complaint" against "COMELEC Commissioner Luzviminda Tancangco", and that the complaint was "endorsed by Rep. Monico Puentevella".[2] The Congress of the Philippines dismissed the complaint on February 3, 2003 and found it "not sufficient in substance".[3] Ms. Tancangco continued to serve on the COMELEC until February 2, 2004.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Commission on Elections from 1940 to the present . February 8, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090307090925/http://www.comelec.gov.ph/aboutus/since1940.html . 2009-03-07 .
  2. Web site: Past impeachment complaints filed against top Comelec officials. 2007-09-27. February 8, 2009.
  3. Web site: Plenary Action on the Preliminary Determination by the Committee on Justice of Insufficiency in Substance of an Impeachment Complaint: Tancangco Case. December 2, 2003. February 1, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20110604060155/http://www.congress.gov.ph/download/researches/rrb_0302_5.pdf. June 4, 2011. dead. mdy-all.