Koko Pimentel

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Aquilino Martin "Koko" de la Llana Pimentel III (Tagalog pronunciation: [pimenˈtel]; born January 20, 1964) is a Filipino politician and lawyer who served as a senator of the Philippines from 2011 to 2025. During his tenure, he served as Senate president from 2016 to 2018 and Senate minority leader from 2022 to 2025. The eldest son of former Senate president Nene Pimentel, the younger Pimentel is the first child of a previous Senate president to hold the office. Pimentel narrowly lost his bid for the Senate in 2007 to Juan Miguel Zubiri, which led to an electoral protest that overturned the initial result, resulting in his proclamation as a senator, taking office in August 2011, four years following the election. Pimentel was subsequently re-elected to the Senate in 2013 under Team PNoy and in 2019 under the Hugpong ng Pagbabago. Pimentel ran in the 2025 Philippine House of Representatives elections to represent Marikina's first district in the lower house, facing off against Marcelino...

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