•Is the largest component of the national

executive branch of the government of

the Philippines.

-President

-Vice – President

- Cabinet of the Philippines.

•Natural born citizen of the Philippines

•Registered voter

•Literate (can read and write)

•At least 40 years old on election day

•Resident of the country for 10 years

•Elected at large by plurality

Qualification

•The term of the President is for six years (no

re-election)

•No person who has succeeded and served as

President for four (4) years can run again

•Vice-President: maximum two (2) terms

Term Limits

•Appoint the heads of the different executive departments

•Appoint ambassadors, consuls and public ministers

•Appoint armed forces personnel from the rank of colonel or naval captain

•Contract / guarantee foreign loans

Presidential Priviledges

•Hold any other office or enjoy any other form

of employment

•Make appointments two months prior to the

next elections

•Make appointments within the 4th civil degree

of consanguinity

Limitation on Power

•Increase his/her salary or that of the Vice-

President during his/her term

•Ratify foreign treaties

•Grant clemency in cases of impeachment

President

Shall receive an annual salary of three

hundred thousand pesos (Php 300,000).

Vice – President

Two hundred forty thousand pesos.

Salaries

•March 14, 2007

•President Arroyo

•Implement a ten percent (10%) increase over

the basic monthly salaries of civilian

government personnel whose positions are

covered by the Compensation and Position

Classification System as of June 30, 2007

Executive Order No. 611 Department of Budget

and Management (DBM)

Philippine Presidents

and their Vice President

(1899-1901) President: Emilio F. Aguinaldo

(1897?) Vice-President: Mariano C. Trias

1935-1944) President Manuel L. Quezon

(1936-1944) Vice-President: Sergio S. Osmeña,

Sr.

(1944-1946) Sergio S. Osmeña, Sr.

(1943-1945) President: Jose P. Laurel

(1943-1945) Vice-Presidents: Benigno

Aquino, Sr. and Ramon Avancena

(1946-1948) President: Manuel L. Roxas (Died

of a heart attack)

(1946-1948) Vice-President: Elpidio R. Quirino

(1948-1953) President: Elpidio R. Quirino

(Assumed the remaining term & re-

elected)

(1949-1953) Vice-President: Fernando H.

Lopez

(1953-1957) President: Ramon F. Magsaysay

(Magsaysay died in an airplane crash on March

16, 1957 on Mt. Manunggal in Cebu)

(1953-1957) Vice-President: Carlos P. Garcia

(1957-1961) President: Carlos P. Garcia

(Assumed the remaining term and re-elected)

(1957-1961) Vice-President: Diosdado P.

Macapagal

(1961-1965) President: Diosdado P. Macapagal

(1961-1965) Vice-President: Emmanuel N.

Pelaez

(1965-1986) President: Ferdinand E. Marcos (the

first to win 2 presidential terms)

(1965-1972) Vice-President: Fernando H. Lopez

(1986-1992) President: Corazon

Cojuangco-Aquino

(1986-1992) Vice-President: Salvador H.

Laurel

(1992-1998) President Fidel V. Ramos

(1992-1998) Vice-President: Joseph

Ejercito Estrada

(1998-2001) President: Joseph Ejercito Estrada

(Deposed by "People Power")

(1998-2001) Vice-President: Gloria Macapagal-

Arroyo

(2001-2010) President: Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

(Assumed Estrada's remaining term & re-elected)

(2001-2004) Vice-President: Teofisto T. Guingona

(2004-2010) Vice-President: Manuel "Noli" de Castro

(2010-Present) President: Benigno

Simeon "Noynoy" Cojuangco Aquino

III

(2010-Present) Vice-President: Jejomar

"Jojo" Cabauatan Binay

List of

Departments

Department Acronym Creation

Department of Agrarian Reform

Kagawaran ng Repormang Pansakahan DAR (KRP) September 1, 1971

Department

Kagawaran ng Pagsasaka DA (KPS) June 23, 1898

Department of Budget and Management

Kagawaran ng Pagbabadyet at Pamamahala DBM (KPP) April 25, 1936

Department of Education

Kagawaran ng Edukasyon DepEd (KEd) January 21, 1901

Department of Energy

Kagawaran ng Enerhiya DOE (KEn) December 9, 1992

Department of Environment and Natural

resources

Kagawaran ng Kapaligiran at Likas na

Kayamanan

DENR (KKLK) January 1, 1917

Department of Finance

Kagawaran ng Pananalapi DOF (KNPN) March 17, 1897

Department of Foreign Appairs

Kagawaran ng Ugnayang Panlabas DFA (KUP) June 23, 1898

Departmetnt of Trade and Industry

Kagawaran ng Kalakalan at Industriya DTI (KKI) June 23, 1898

Department of Transportation and

Communication

Kagawaran ng Transportasyon at

Komunikasyon

DOTC (KNTK) January 23, 1979

Department of Health

Kagawaran ng Kalusugan DOH (KNKL) September 29, 1898

Department of Interior and Local Government

Kagawaran ng Interyor at Pamahalaang Lokal DILG (KIPL) March 22, 1897

Department of Justice

Kagawaran ng Katarungan DOJ (KNKT) September 26, 1898

Department of Labor and Employment

Kagawaran ng Paggawa at Empleyo DOLE (KNPE) December 8, 1933

Department of National Defense

Kagawaran ng Tanggulang Pambansa DND (KTP) December 21, 1935

Department of Public Works and Highways

Kagawaran ng Pagawaing Bayan at Lansangan DPWH (KPBL) January 30, 1987

Department of Science and Technology

Kagawaran ng Agham at Teknolohiya DOST (KNAT) January 30, 1987

Department of Social Welfare and Development

Kagawaran ng Kagalingang Panlipunan at

Pagpapaunlad

DSWD (KKPP) November 1, 1939

Department of Tourism

Kagawaran ng Turismo DOT (KNT) May 11, 1973