Jamby Madrigal

Maria Ana Consuelo Madrigal de Valade (born April 26, 1958), better known as Jamby Madrigal, is a Filipina politician and businesswoman. She was elected as a senator in the 2004 elections. After only one term, she ran for the presidency in the 2010 elections and lost.

Early life and career Jamby was born in Manila, Philippines on April 26, 1958, to Antonio Madrigal y Paterno (1918–2006) and Amanda Abad-Santos y Teopaco. She is the granddaughter of the former Supreme Court Chief Justice José Abad-Santos of San Fernando, Pampanga. Her grand uncle – pre-Commonwealth Assemblyman Pedro Abad Santos – founded the Socialist Party of the Philippines.

Her paternal grandfather was billionaire businessman and Senator Vicente Madrigal of Ligao, Albay. Her aunt, Pacita Madrigal-Warns, was a Senator during the Quezon and Magsaysay administrations and was the first administrator of the Social Welfare Administration, the predecessor of today's Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Her late uncle and aunt were former Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Manuel Collantes and heiress Consuelo "Chito" Madrigal.

In addition to her work for her numerous foundations, in 2003 she became the spokesperson for the youth-based Kontra Pulitika Movement (KPM), which champions education, protection of the environment, and economic empowerment through livelihood programs.

Political career In October 1999, President Joseph Estrada created the Office of the Presidential Adviser for Children's Affairs and appointed Madrigal to head this office. She later unsuccessfully ran for senator in 2001 under the Puwersa ng Masa opposition coalition. She organized the First National Summit for Children in Malacañang Palace on October 26, 2001, where government agencies, local government units, industry leaders and non-government organizations signed a declaration of commitment upholding Child 21 – a framework on which to anchor all action plans and strategies relating to children. Environment; Youth, Women and Family Relations; Peace, Unification and Reconciliation; and Cultural Communities.

In an opposition protest, Madrigal was one of the political leaders who were subjected to the Manila Police water cannons while attending a religious procession on October 14, 2005. to prove that Villar had "realigned C-5 (a main Metro Manila thoroughfare) to pass by [Villar's] real estate developments so that [Villar] would be paid for right of way." However, she lost, placing 20th.

Post-Senate On February 23, 2017, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II accused Madrigal and Biñan Representative Marlyn Alonte-Naguiat, both former members of the Liberal Party, for offering a bribe to high-profile inmates to recant their testimony against Senator Leila de Lima in connection to the New Bilibid Prison drug trafficking scandal. Then abroad, Madrigal denied the accusation, saying it was "baseless, malicious and outright lies." She said that she is of no relation and didn't speak to a certain Lalaine Madrigal Martinez (wife of convicted kidnapper and drug lord Noel Martinez), whom she had allegedly approached to offer the bribe. Nevertheless, netizens criticized Aguirre for simply accusing others without any evidences.

Personal life Madrigal married Frenchman Eric Jean-Claude Valade on December 7, 2002, at the Calatagan, Batangas farm estate of her aunt, Doña Consuelo "Chito" Madrigal vda. de Collantes.

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