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May 01, 1942 82 years old
Filipino politician
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About Edcel Lagman
- Edcel C.
- Lagman (born May 1, 1942) is a Filipino human rights lawyer and politician from the province of Albay.
- He was elected as a member of the House in 1987 up to the present.
- He served as Minority Floor Leader of the House of Representatives of the Philippines until 2012, when he resigned the office.
- Lagman is one of the key Liberal Party figures in the House of Representatives, having supported the Reproductive Health Bill (who he principally authored), the SOGIE Equality Bill, the Free Tertiary Education Act, the Anti-Dynasty Bill, and the Freedom of Information Bill.
- He is also the principal author of the Divorce Bill, the Human Rights Defenders Bill, the Prevention of Teenage Pregnancy Bill, and the Anti-Child Marriage Bill.
- Lagman was instrumental to the abolition of the death penalty in the Philippines in 2006 and continues to oppose proposals to reinstate capital punishment in the country.
- Lagman is also the principal author of a triumvirate of human rights laws, namely the Anti-Torture Act of 2009 (R.A.
- 9745), the Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012 (R.A.
- 10353), and the Human Rights Victims Reparation and Recognition Act of 2013 (R.A.
- 10368).
