What is Aquilino Pimentel Jr.?
[[File:Nene Pimentel at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani 2018 Honoring of Martyrs and Heroes.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Pimentel Jr. in 2018]] '''Aquilino Quilinging Pimentel Jr.''' (December 11, 1933 &ndash; October 20, 2019), also known as '''Nene''', was a [[politician]] in the [[Philippines]]. ==Career== He was first [[election|elected]] as a delegate to the 1971 [[Constitutional Convention]]. He then went into [[exile]] when [[President of the Philippines|President]] [[Ferdinand Marcos]] declared [[martial law]]. He came back in [[1980]] and was elected as [[mayor]] of [[Cagayan de Oro City]] in [[Misamis Oriental]]. He was removed as mayor [[1982]]. He returned as mayor again in [[1984]]. He was elected as an [[Assemblyman]] in the [[Batasang Pambansa]] (National Assembly), serving from [[1984]] to [[1986]]. After the [[EDSA Revolution]], President [[Corazon Aquino]] appointed him as [[Minister of Local Government]] and Presidential adviser/chief negotiator with the [[Muslim]] [[insurgent]]s in [[Mindanao]]. He then was elected [[Senator]] ([[1987]]–[[1992]]). As senator, he wrote the [[Local Government Code]]. He tried to become [[Vice-President of the Philippines|Vice President]] in [[1992]]. He ran under the [[Liberal Party]] with [[Jovito Salonga]] running for president. He finished fifth among the vice presidential [[candidate]]s with 9.9% of the vote. In 1995, He ran for another term as senator but lost. [[Cheat]]ing was suspected in that election. He took the case to the [[Supreme Court]]. He won the [[Lawsuit|suit]] in [[2004]]. In [[1998]], he ran again for another term in the [[Senate of the Philippines]], from [[1998]] to [[2004]] and won. He was also elected as the 19th President of the Senate. He served as president from 2000 to 2001. He finally left the Senate on June 30, 2010. As chair of the [[Blue Ribbon Committee]], Pimentel recommended the [[prosecution]] of top [[government]] [[official]]s of previous [[administration]]s in relation to the [[Expo Pilipino centennial scam]] and the misuse of the