HERNANDO "NANI" B. PEREZ
Lakas-NUCD-UMDP

• Elected Representative of the Second District of Batangas and is the Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives.
• Dean, College of Law, University of Batangas
• Bar Reviewer and Law Professor, Ateneo de Manila University
• Law Professor, University of the East
• Former Secretary, Department of Transportation and Communication
• He was a consistent Outstanding Congressman where:

-He sought the establishment of a grain prize stabilization fund while pushing for modernized irrigation to ensure food security

-He was the first to call for daily monitoring of prices of basic commodities in the initial stages of the peso devaluation.

-He called financial institutions like SSS and GSIS to offer liberal terms to debtors and also called for increasing Medicare and other Social Security benefits.

-He initiated peacemaking moves by calling for multilateral talks in the Spratlys controversy.

-He crafted measures to protect indigenous people’s knowledge and strengthen NGOs.