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Francis Joseph Guevara Escudero, or Chiz as most Filipinos know him, is one of the youngest lawmakers to serve in Congress and among its most popular members having consistently won elections in the House of Representatives and later on in the Senate, where he was voted at the top of the senatorial bracket.
A lawyer and a professor of law, Chiz is a product of the University of the Philippines, from primary all the way to law school. He passed the Philippine Bar in 1994 and went on to obtain a Masters degree in International and Comparative Law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. in 1996.
He entered politics in 1998 when he was elected Representative of the First District of Sorsogon. He served three terms during which he served as Assistant Majority Floor Leader and House Minority Floor Leader.
In 2007 and 2013, Chiz ran and among the top senators that the voters preferred. He was one of the Senate’s most productive members. He passed a total of 273 laws and among the legislators who made sure that there will be no pending bill unheard in his committees.
Chiz was named one of the country’s Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) for youth leadership, the only Filipino to be named Asia News Network’s Asia’s Idols, honored as one of the world’s Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum, and received the Rotary Golden Wheel Award in recognition of his contributions in political governance and the legislative field.
In 2019, Chiz went back to his hometown in Sorsogon and became the governor of the province. As governor, Chiz pushed for the speedy implementation of numerous projects on Health, Infrastructure, Agriculture, Social Services, Tourism and Disaster Risk Management that immensely improved the lives of his fellow Sorsoganons.
With the fresh mandate given to him in the 19th Congress, Chiz continues to push for extensive legislation on good governance, education, agriculture, electoral reforms and justice and human rights.
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