NOLI DE CASTRO has, in the past few years, portrayed himself as every corrupt government officials’ nemesis, the defender of the poor and the oppressed and the hope of the exploited and the helpless. Every morning, De Castro is heard over radio DZMM fearlessly lambasting corrupt police officials, taking to task lazy and inefficient government functionaries and exposing exploitative and oppressive private individuals and Big Business. His exposes continue on ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation’s primetime television news, TV PATROL and the once-a-week news magazine program, MAGANDANG GABI, BAYAN. In the process, De Castro has managed to cultivate an image of “MR. CLEAN.” Indeed, he has become everybody’s KABAYAN.
THOUGH many of his townmates in Pola, Oriental Mindoro, remember Sen. Manuel “Noli” de Castro with fondness and admiration, his critics scoff at him as nothing more than a bundle of discrepancies.
As the May 10 election draws nearer, allegations have been made more stridently in the media against the man the opinion surveys consistently say is most likely to win the vice-presidential race.
Present Positions
- Vice President of the Republic of the Philippines
- Presidential Adviser on Housing and HUDCC Chairman
- As HUDCC Chairman:
- Chairman of the Board of Directors (Ex-officio), National Housing Authority (NHA)
- Chairman of the Board of Trustees (Ex-officio), Home Development and Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG Fund)
- Chairman of the Board of Directors (Ex-officio), National Home Mortgage and Finance Corporation (NHMFC)
- Chairman of the Board of Commissioners (Ex-officio), Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB)
- Vice–Chairman of the Board of Directors (Ex-officio), Home Guaranty Corporation (HGC)
- Vice Chairman-National Anti Poverty Commission
- Presidential Assistant for OFW
