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The presidency of Joseph Ejercito Estrada, also known as the Estrada administration, spanned 31 months from June 30, 1998, to January 20, 2001. Estrada was elected president of the Philippines in the May 11, 1998 national elections, receiving almost 11 million votes.
Estrada was elected president in 1998 with a wide margin of votes separating him from the other challengers and was sworn into the presidency on June 30, 1998. In 2000, he declared an "all-out-war" against Moro Islamic Liberation Front and captured its headquarters and other camps. [ 4 ]
Joseph Estrada, Filipino actor and politician who served as president of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, when he was ousted amid protests over a corruption scandal. He later was convicted of plundering but was pardoned.
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In 1998, by virtue of Executive Order No.8, President Estrada created the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF) with the objective of minimizing, if not totally eradicating, car theft and worsening kidnapping cases in the country.
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Joseph "Erap" Estrada was elected president of the Philippines in 1998 and served for 31 months until he was ousted after the People Power II protests in January 2001. A former college dropout, movie actor and vice president, he was known for his short and stocky physique, greasy Elvis Presley pompadour and thin mustache. He was notorious for his w...
Although characterized himself as a man of humble origins and a friend of the poor, Estrada was born into an upper middle class family in 1937 in Tondo, a district of Manila. His parents were from the families of prosperous landowners. Estrada attended the prestigious Jesuit school the Ateneo, where he was once expelled after getting into a fight w...
As a young man, Estrada became a popular action movie actor, playing uneducated but strong- willed underdogs—roles that common people could identify with—who prevailed over much stronger and more powerful bad guys. When he was running for president in 1998, Estrada said, "I've played fishermen, farmers and jeepney drivers. I've studied these people...
Estrada has spent more than 40 year in politics as a mayor, senator, vice president and president. He continued to act in movies even after he was elected mayor in 1967 of the municipality of San Juan within metropolitan Manila, where he was known for disciplining corrupt policemen by punching them. His biggest accomplishment as senator was passing...
One of the best selling books in the Philippines in 1994, was collection of Erap jokes called “ERAPtion: How to Speak English Without Really Trial” written by a news paper columnist who has yet to live down the fact that he was Estrada's English teacher. [Source: William Branigin, the Washington Post, November 12, 1994] Among the jokes in the book ...
Estrada seemed proud of his lack of education, poor English and loose management style. He was known for dozing through meetings, showing up in his office in the afternoon, nursing a hangover, and showing up two hours late for campaign rallies. His attention span was so short that he had trouble sitting through cabinet meetings. He ordered that non...
A notorious womanizer, Estrada has had numerous affairs and is said to have fathered at least 10 children with five women other than his wife, including three with te former actress Laarni Enriquez.. When Estrada's love life was compared with that of Clinton's during the Lewinsky scandal in the 1990s, Estrada remarked. "Both President Clinton and I...
Estrada was elected president in May, 1998 campaigning as a friend of the poor and often singing live songs during his rallies. He won by the largest margin in Philippine election history. He took 40 percent of the vote on a ballot with 11 other candidates. His nearest rival was U.S.-educated Senator Raul Roco with 14 percent of the vote. His popul...
There was a sense of optimism when Joseph Estrada was elected. Investors shared this sense of hope and initially poured money into the Philippines but it didn’t take long for this optimism to evaporate. Foreign investors were turned off by cronyism, scandals and favoritism towards Philippines companies. Estrada moved to tighten securities regulatio...
Estrada gave luxury cars to favorite senior bureaucrats and cut deals during all night majong games with his “midnight cabinet” cronies, which included some of Marcos’s cronies, gangsters and people involved in gambling and smuggling and other illicit trades. He kept four houses and helped friends who were notorious tax dodgers. Estrada was accused...
The rehabilitation of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos' cronies under president-elect Joseph Estrada's administration could scuttle talks to end a 29-year communist rebellion, a rebel leader said.
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Joseph Ejercito Estrada, also known by the nickname Erap, is a Filipino politician and former actor, who served as the 13th President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, the 9th Vice President of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998, and the 22nd Mayor of Manila, the country's capital from 2013 to 2019, also served as the 14th Mayor of San Juan ...
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