Minority Floor Leader of the Senate of the Philippines

Minority Floor Leader of the Senate of the Philippines
Incumbent Franklin Drilon since February 28, 2017
Style	The Honorable (Diplomatic)
Appointer	Elected by the Senate of the Philippines
Inaugural holder	Claro M. Recto
Formation	1931
Website	Senate of the Philippines

The Minority Floor Leader of the Senate, also called as the Senate Minority Floor Leader, is the leader elected by the minority political grouping of the Senate of the Philippines to serve as their official leader in the body and fulfill the responsibilities of a Floor Leader. He manages the business of the minority in the Senate. He is expected to defend the minority’s parliamentary rights, to criticize the policies and programs of the majority, and to use parliamentary tactics to defeat, pass, or amend legislation.

The current Minority Floor Leader of the Senate is Franklin Drilon who was elected on February 28, 2017 following his ouster and replacement by Ralph Recto as the Senate President pro tempore on February 27, 2017.

List of Minority Floor Leaders

#	Minority Floor Leader		Party	Legislature	Start of service	End of service	Era
1	bgcolor=Template:Nacionalista Party/meta/color|	Claro M. Recto	Nacionalista	9th Philippine Legislature	1931	1934	Insular Government
				10th Philippine Legislature	1934	1935
				1st Commonwealth Congress	1945	1946	Commonwealth
				2nd Commonwealth Congress	1946	1946
2	rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Nacionalista Party/meta/color|	Carlos P. Garcia	Nacionalista	1st Congress	1946	1949	Third Republic
	2nd Congress			1950	1953
3	bgcolor=Template:Nationalist Citizens' Party/meta/color|	Lorenzo Tañada	NCP	3rd Congress	1954	1957
4	bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (Philippines)/meta/color|	Ambrosio Padilla	Liberal	4th Congress	1958	1960
5	bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (Philippines)/meta/color|	Ferdinand Marcos	Liberal		1960	1961
6	bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (Philippines)/meta/color|	Estanislao Fernandez	Liberal	5th Congress	January 22, 1962	December 30, 1965
7	bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (Philippines)/meta/color|	Ambrosio Padilla (2nd time)	Liberal	6th Congress	January 17, 1966	December 30, 1969
8	bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (Philippines)/meta/color|	Gerardo Roxas	Liberal	7th Congress	January 26, 1970	September 23, 1972
9	bgcolor=Template:Nacionalista Party/meta/color|	Juan Ponce Enrile	Nacionalista	8th Congress	July 27, 1987	January 18, 1992	Fifth Republic
10	bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (Philippines)/meta/color|	Wigberto Tañada	Liberal	9th Congress	January 18, 1992	June 30, 1995
11	bgcolor=Template:Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino/meta/color|	Edgardo Angara	LDP	10th Congress	August 28, 1995	October 10, 1996
12	bgcolor=Template:Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino/meta/color|	Neptali Gonzales	LDP		October 10, 1996	January 26, 1998
13	bgcolor=Template:Nationalist People's Coalition/meta/color|	Ernesto Maceda	NPC		January 26, 1998	June 30, 1998
14	bgcolor=Template:Lakas-NUCD/meta/color|	Teofisto Guingona, Jr.	Lakas	11th Congress	July 27, 1998	February 7, 2001
15	bgcolor=Template:Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan/meta/color|	Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.	PDP–Laban	12th Congress	July 23, 2001	June 3, 2002
16	bgcolor=Template:Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino/meta/color|	Tito Sotto	LDP		June 3, 2002	July 26, 2004
17	rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan/meta/color|	Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. (2nd time)	PDP–Laban	13th Congress	July 26, 2004	July 23, 2007
	14th Congress			July 23, 2007	June 30, 2010
18	bgcolor=Template:Nacionalista Party/meta/color|	Alan Peter Cayetano	Nacionalista	15th Congress	July 26, 2010	July 22, 2013
19	bgcolor=Template:United Nationalist Alliance/meta/color|	Juan Ponce Enrile (2nd time)	UNA	16th Congress	July 22, 2013	June 30, 2016
-	bgcolor=Template:Nationalist People's Coalition/meta/color|	Tito Sotto (Acting)	NPC/UNA		July 28, 2014	August 2015
20	bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (Philippines)/meta/color|	Ralph Recto	Liberal	17th Congress	July 25, 2016	February 27, 2017
21	bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (Philippines)/meta/color|	Franklin Drilon	Liberal		February 28, 2017	present

See also

• Majority Floor Leader of the Senate of the Philippines

References

• List of Senators of the Philippines

External links

• Senate of the Philippines