What is Sixto Brillantes?
[[File:Sixto Brillantes (cropped).png|right|200px]] '''Sixto Serrano Brillantes, Jr.''' (August 14, 1939 – August 11, 2020) was a [[Filipinos|Filipino]] [[election]] [[lawyer]]. He was the chairman of the [[Commission on Elections (Philippines)|Commission on Elections]] from 2011 to 2015. He was appointed by President [[Benigno Aquino III]] on January 16, 2011.<ref>{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=January 17, 2011|title=Statement of President Aquino on the appointment of Attorney Sixto Brillantes as Comelec chair|work=Official Gazette|url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2011/01/17/statement-of-president-aquino-on-the-appointment-of-attorney-sixto-brillantes-as-comelec-chair/|access-date=August 11, 2020|archive-date=August 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811062437/https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2011/01/17/statement-of-president-aquino-on-the-appointment-of-attorney-sixto-brillantes-as-comelec-chair/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=January 17, 2011|title=Aquino confident in choice of Brillantes as COMELEC Chairman|work=Presidential Communications Operations Office|url=https://pcoo.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/News%20Releases/2011/jan17.htm|url-status=dead|access-date=August 11, 2020|archive-date=August 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811062357/https://pcoo.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/News%20Releases/2011/jan17.htm}}</ref> He was born in [[Manila]]. On July 25, 2020 he was diagnosed with [[COVID-19]] and was hospitalized in Manila.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-07-25|title=Former Comelec chief Sixto Brillantes has COVID-19 and is intubated, daughter says|website=CNN Philippines|url=https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2020/7/25/sixto-brillantes-covid19-intubated.html|access-date=2020-07-27|archive-date=2020-07-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727084032/https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2020/7/25/sixto-brillantes-covid19-intubated.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He died from the infection on August 11, 2020 at the age of 80.<ref>[https://r