Majority Floor Leader of the Senate of the Philippines

Majority Floor Leader of the Senate of the Philippines
Incumbent Vicente Sotto III since July 25, 2016
Style	The Honorable (Diplomatic)
Appointer	Elected by the Senate of the Philippines
Inaugural holder	Francisco Villanueva
Formation	October 16, 1916
Website	Senate of the Philippines

The Majority leader of the Senate of the Philippines (also called as the Senate Majority Floor Leader) is the leader elected by the majority party of the Senate of the Philippines that serves as their official leader in the body.

He also manages the business of the majority part in the Senate. By tradition, the Senate President or any Presiding Officer gives the Majority leader priority in obtaining the floor and also, he is the traditional Chairman of the Committee on Rules.

The current Majority Floor Leader of the Senate is Tito Sotto, elected on the first day of the first regular session of 17th Congress on July 25, 2016.

List of Majority Floor Leaders

#	Name		Party	District	Legislature	Start of service	End of service	Era
1	bgcolor=Template:Nacionalista Party/meta/color|	Francisco F. Villanueva	Nacionalista	7th	4th Philippine Legislature	1916	1919	Insular Government
2	rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Nacionalista Party/meta/color|	Francisco Enage	Nacionalista	9th	5th Philippine Legislature	1919	1922
	6th Philippine Legislature				1922	1925
					7th Philippine Legislature	1925	1928
3	bgcolor=Template:Nacionalista Party/meta/color|	Jose P. Laurel	Nacionalista	5th	8th Philippine Legislature	1928	1931
4	bgcolor=Template:Nacionalista Party/meta/color|	Benigno Aquino, Sr.	Nacionalista	3rd	9th Philippine Legislature	1931	1934
5	bgcolor=Template:Nacionalista Party/meta/color|	Claro M. Recto	Nacionalista	5th	10th Philippine Legislature	1934	1935
6	bgcolor=Template:Nacionalista Party/meta/color|	Melecio Arranz	Nacionalista	Nationwide at-large	1st Commonwealth Congress	1945	1946	Commonwealth
7	rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Nacionalista Party/meta/color|	Vicente Francisco	Nacionalista		2nd Commonwealth Congress	1946	1946
	1st Congress				1946	1948	Third Republic
8		rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (Philippines)/meta/color|	Tomas Cabili		Liberal	1948		1949
	2nd Congress	1950				1953
9	rowspan=3 bgcolor=Template:Nacionalista Party/meta/color|	Cipriano Primicias, Sr.	Nacionalista		3rd Congress	1954		1957
	4th Congress				1958	1961
	5th Congress				1962	1965
10		bgcolor=Template:Nacionalista Party/meta/color|	Arturo Tolentino					Nacionalista
11	bgcolor=Template:Nacionalista Party/meta/color|	Jose Roy	Nacionalista		6th Congress	1966		1969
12	bgcolor=Template:Nacionalista Party/meta/color|	Rodolfo Ganzon	Nacionalista
13	rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Nacionalista Party/meta/color|	Arturo Tolentino (2nd time)	Nacionalista
	7th Congress				1970	1972
14	bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (Philippines)/meta/color|	Orlando S. Mercado	Liberal		8th Congress	1987	1989	Fifth Republic
15	bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (Philippines)/meta/color|	Teofisto Guingona, Jr.	Liberal			1990	1991
16	rowspan=3 bgcolor=Template:Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino/meta/color|	Alberto Romulo	LDP			1991	1992
	9th Congress				1992	1995
	10th Congress				1995	1996
17		bgcolor=Template:Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino/meta/color|	Francisco Tatad		LDP	1996	1998
18		bgcolor=Template:Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats/meta/color|	Franklin Drilon		Lakas	1998	1998
	bgcolor=Template:Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino/meta/color|	LAMP			11th Congress	1998	2000
19	bgcolor=Template:People's Reform Party/meta/color|	Francisco Tatad (2nd time)	PRP			2000	2001
20	bgcolor=Template:Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats/meta/color|	Loren Legarda	Lakas		12th Congress	2001	2002
21	bgcolor=Template:Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan/meta/color|	Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.	PDP-LABAN			2002	2002
22	bgcolor=Template:Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats/meta/color|	Loren Legarda (2nd time)	Lakas			2002	2004
23	rowspan=3 bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (Philippines)/meta/color|	Francis Pangilinan	Liberal			2004	2004
	13th Congress				2004	2007
	14th Congress				2007	2008
24		bgcolor=Template:Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats/meta/color|	Juan Miguel Zubiri		Lakas	2008	2010
25	bgcolor=Template:Nationalist People's Coalition/meta/color|	Tito Sotto	NPC		15th Congress	2010	2013
26	bgcolor=Template:Nacionalista Party/meta/color|	Alan Peter Cayetano	Nacionalista		16th Congress	2013	2016
27	bgcolor=Template:Nationalist People's Coalition/meta/color|	Tito Sotto (2nd time)	NPC		17th Congress	2016	present

Living former Majority Leaders of the Senate

Currently there are eight living former Majority Leader of the Senate:

• Living Former Majority leader of the Senate
• 
  Orly Mercado (PDP-Laban), served 1987-1989
• 
  Teofisto Guingona (Lakas NUCD), served 1990-1991
• 
  Alberto Romulo (Independent), served 1991-1996
• 
  Francisco Tatad, served 1996-1998,2000-2001
• 
  Franklin Drilon (Lakas-NUCD, LAMMP), served 1998-2000
• 
  Loren Legarda (Lakas-CMD), served 2001-2002, 2002-2004
• 
  Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban), served 2002
• 
  Francis Pangilinan (Liberal), served 2004-2008
• 
  Juan Miguel Zubiri (Lakas-CMD), served 2008-2010

See also

• Minority Floor Leader of the Senate of the Philippines

External links

• Senate of the Philippines