00:00And the people who matter is the Filipino people.
00:03Ayan mga Pilipino, napad.
00:06Kaya natin isaayos ang kwayan natin,
00:09at kaya natin lumaban para sa ating mga kanapatad.
00:16We have to fight for our rights.
00:18If we accede to the antics of many people in government
00:24who have a wrong idea of how to exercise power and responsibility,
00:30then things will never improve.
00:33We have to fight back by being open,
00:36or by openly communicating to us what is happening on the ground.
00:43I'm not new to government.
00:45This is my seventh pang-pito kong posisyon na ito na hinawakan ito sa rubyak na natin.
00:53Ang una ko pong hinawakan,
00:55I was first appointed as a provincial board member of the province of Cavite
01:03under the vacancy rule.
01:05Vacancy rule happens when somebody is infastated or dies,
01:11and somebody has to be replaced,
01:12and it happened to be one of my father's vice-governor died.
01:17He was replaced by a provincial board member
01:20because he became vacant, and I was the one who related to the provincial board in 1992.
01:28I was a 31-year-old lawyer then.
01:31I graduated from Macaiglupi College of Law in 1987,
01:34and practiced mail-off,
01:37and then in 1992 also,
01:40my father had a stroke,
01:42and he needed assistance with governance,
01:45and I was a lawyer,
01:46so his people decided I would be the best person to fit in,
01:50in being the anti-summary lawyer.
01:52So I entered the provincial board.
01:54After that, I entered the presidential management staff in Malacanang in 1998.
02:08And then I became a chief of staff in the Senate.
02:12After Iraq was deposed,
02:13I became a chief of staff of Senator Loy in the Senate.
02:18And then I ran for Congress,
02:20which was my fourth or fifth job already.
02:23I ran for Congress.
02:25I was Congress-run for four terms,
02:28twelve years and one day,
02:29one day being my fifth term,
02:31which I could not use anymore since I accepted the appointment
02:34as Secretary of Justice.
02:38So, congressman,
02:39then I was governor for three years,
02:41before I became Secretary of Justice,
02:43and this is my seventh calling in government,
02:47as congressman of the Republic.
02:51So, I've been exposed.
02:53I know how the politics in this country works,
02:56from the ground up.
02:58I think that I'm one of the few people
03:00who understands the processes,
03:01the intricacies of the bureaucracy,
03:05the tendencies of people to abuse power,
03:08I think is something that I've seen.
03:11Since I began remembering things,
03:15I could see people enjoying power too much,
03:18enjoying it too much,
03:19or exercising it with abuse,
03:22committing abuse of authority.
03:27And, I became a lawyer in 1988,
03:29and that was a long process by which,
03:33we studied this constitution,
03:36the 1987 constitution,
03:38when we graduated.
03:40So, I took the bar under the 1987 constitution,
03:43where the office of the ombudsman was created,
03:47by the framers of the constitution.
03:50And, right there and then,
03:51I wanted to be a ombudsman.
03:53In 1987, I knew it,
03:55but I knew that it's something that,
03:56it was a position that interested me in ever since.
04:00Since 1987.
04:01So, that's 39 years ago.
04:02So, yun na po yung gusto ko ng pasukan ng araw pa.
04:06Kaya lang, you have to be patient,
04:08and go through the process of learning,
04:11and probably not help me understand the nuances of government,
04:15and how people suffer through bad governance,
04:20and abuse of power.
04:30Take care.
04:51You
