Edward Maceda

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Edward Michael Vera Perez Maceda (born October 3, 1970) is a Filipino lawyer and politician serving as the representative of Manila's 4th district since 2016. Prior to his election as congressman, he was councilor of the same district from 1995 to 2004 and from 2007 to 2016.

Early life and education[]

Maceda was born on October 3, 1970, the youngest of five sons of Ernesto Maceda (1935-2016) and Maria Azucena, popularly known as Marichu Vera-Perez (1942-2020). He has four older brothers, Emmanuel, Ernesto Jr., Erwin and Edmond. His mother is the daughter of Dr. Jose Vera Perez who basically put up the Sampaguita Pictures, along with his grand mother, Azucena Vera Perez who made many films for the longest time but unfornately, as of now Sampaguita Picture is not active. His cousin, Pangasinan's 4th District Representative Christopher de Venecia, is the son of Marichu's sister Gina de Venecia.

During his childhood days, Congressman Edward Maceda was a simple and normal kid. He was very studious and a sporty person. He likes to play basketball and other games like darts, billiard, taguan and tumbang preso. He also played Chinese Garter which is played by most of the children today.

He studied in 3 exclusive schools. He finished his grade school and high school at La Salle Greenhills. He went to college at University of the Philippines Diliman and finished the AB Journalism in the college of Mass Communication and went to Ateneo Law School where he finished his 4 years of Law. After that, he took the bar exam year later and passed the bar exam.

Political career[]

4th District Councilor (1995–2004; 2007–2016)[]

In 1995, his brother Atty. Ernesto Maceda Jr. was a councilor for 2 terms and had 1 more term, but he had to study first his Masters degree in United States. He convinced his father to let him run because at that time he is a law student and the position was vacant so he had to convinced him strongly. His father did not force him to become a politician that time.

At that time he felt that he had a personality for it so his father allowed him to run for councilor in 1995, that time he became a councilor for 3 terms to 2005 then he took a break for 1 term only from 2004 to 2007. There is no member of Maceda family that ran for that time’s election because their father did not allow them to. He ran again for councilor from 2007, serving for three terms until 2016.

4th District Representative of Manila (2016–present)[]

In 2016, he asked to his father and proved that he served Sampaloc long enough and well enough for him to give a shot for the congressional seat. He ran in 2016 for the congressional race under Asenso Manileño and won with a total of 46,349 votes defeating Don Juan Bagatsing and Annie Bonoan.

On March 8, 2017, Maceda voted against House Bill 4727 which the bill that seeks the return of the death penalty, while his cousin Christopher de Venecia voted in favor of the bill.

In 2019, he was re-elected in the same seat and won over his predecessor Maria Theresa Bonoan-David with a vote of 63,298 over her 30,238 votes.

On July 10, 2020, he and his cousin Christopher de Venecia are one of the 11 representatives who voted to grant the franchise renewal of ABS-CBN. He is one of the two Manila Lawmakers to grant the franchise alongside Benny Abante.^[3]

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