Honorific-Prefix: | The Honorable |
Rodante D. Marcoleta | |
Office: | Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines |
1Namedata: | Alan Peter Cayetano Lord Allan Velasco |
Term Start: | July 29, 2019 |
Term End: | June 1, 2022 |
Office2: | Member of the Philippine House of Representatives for SAGIP party-list |
Term Start2: | June 30, 2016 |
Office3: | Member of the Philippine House of Representatives for Alagad party-list |
Term Start3: | June 30, 2004 |
Term End3: | June 30, 2013 |
Birth Name: | Rodante Dizon Marcoleta |
Birth Date: | 29 July 1953 |
Birth Place: | Paniqui, Tarlac, Philippines |
Nationality: | Filipino |
Party: | PDP–Laban (2021–present) SAGIP (2016–present) Alagad (2004–2013) |
Spouse: | Edna M. Marcoleta |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Children: | 1 |
Alma Mater: | University of the Philippines Diliman (DPA) San Sebastian College (LL.B) |
Rodante Dizon Marcoleta (born July 29, 1953) is a Filipino politician serving as the party-list representative for SAGIP since 2016. He is a former House Deputy Speaker of the 18th Congress from 2019 to 2022.[1] A successful member of the religious organization Iglesia ni Cristo, Marcoleta is one of the vocal opponents against ABS-CBN and Meralco one of the 70 representatives who voted to permanently deny the franchise renewal of the network[2] [3] [4] and 70 representatives who voted to permanently deny the franchise renewal of the electricity as well as responsible for the termination of ABS-CBN Meralco and TV5's landmark partnership deal.[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] Marcoleta is also the host of Net 25 public affairs program, Sa Ganang Mamamayan (lit. For Citizens)[10] and the public service program Bagong Barangay ng Mamamayan in Action co-hosted by DILG Undersecretary for Barangay Affairs Felicito "Chito" Valmocina.
Marcoleta was elected to the House of Representatives of the Philippines under the 13th Congress representing the party-list of Alagad from 2004 to 2007 and again under the 15th Congress from 2009 until 2013. In 2016, under the 17th Congress, he was elected party-list representative of the Social Amelioration & Genuine Intervention on Poverty Partylist, more commonly known by its abbreviation SAGIP.[12] He is known as the proponent of slashing the budget of the Commission on Human Rights to 1,000 pesos.[13] Marcoleta was one of the principal authors of the landmark law Magna Carta of the Poor,[14] which was signed by President Rodrigo Duterte in April 2019.[15]
In April 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, Marcoleta and Anakalusugan party-list representative Mike Defensor initiated an "ivermectin pan-three" that distributes the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, despite warnings from the World Health Organization on the lack of evidence to support the drug's efficacy against COVID-19.[16] [17]
In September 2021, Marcoleta was nominated by the PDP–Laban political party to run for senator in the 2022 Philippine Senate elections.[18] [19] [20] On April 27, 2022, twelve days prior to the elections, Marcoleta withdrew his senatorial bid citing his 'poor showing' in the surveys.[21] [22]