page_title: Tito Sotto
section_title: Third term in Senate (2010–2016)
hierarchical_section_title: Tito Sotto / Political career / Third term in Senate (2010–2016)
caption_attribution_description: English: Majority Leader Senator Tito Sotto was all smiles as he answers questions from the press on issues such as the Reproductive Health Bill, the division of Camarines Sur into two different provinces and criticisms against him on his Turno en Contra speech. Sotto was the guest during the Kapihan sa Senado, Thursday, August 30, 2012.
context_page_description: Vicente "Tito" Castelo Sotto III is a Filipino politician and the incumbent Senate President of the Philippines. Following the 2016 elections, he is currently serving his fourth term in the Senate, having served two consecutive terms from 1992 to 2004; he was re-elected to the Senate in 2010. Prior to serving in the Senate, Sotto had served as the Vice Mayor of Quezon City from 1988 to 1992.
  Sotto is a former actor, comedian, music producer, songwriter, and bowler. Sotto founded and produced the musical group VST & Co., one of the pioneers of the Manila sound, which included his brothers Vic and Val Sotto. Sotto is a co-host of Eat Bulaga!, the longest-running variety show in Philippine television history. He is also a grandson and grandnephew of former Senators Vicente Y. Sotto and Filemon Sotto respectively.
context_section_description: Sotto won election to another term in the Philippine Senate in the 2010 senatorial election, as a member of the Nationalist People's Coalition.
  Upon the commencement of the 15th Congress on July 26, 2010, he was elected by the majority of his fellow Senators as the Majority Leader of the Senate as well as the
  Chairman of its Committee on Rules, thus he manages the legislative affairs of the Senate, particularly on the floor during the sessions. He was also one of the 20 Senators that voted to convict Chief Justice Renato Corona and to remove him from office on May 29 of that year.
  In July 2013, at the end of the 15th congress, Sotto resigned as the Majority Leader following the resignation of Juan Ponce Enrile, his staunch political mentor, as Senate President. Enrile resigned due to allegations of misusing the Senate funds. Then assistant majority leader Senator Gregorio Honasan became the acting Majority Leader following Sotto's resignation.
  On the commencement of the session of the 16th Congress, on July 22, 2013, Sotto became part of the new Senate minority group. He was chosen by his colleagues in the minority to be the Deputy Floor Leader, second-in-command to Enrile who became the Minority Leader. In July 2014, following Enrile's arrest on charges of plunder relating to the pork barrel scam, Sotto became the acting Minority Floor Leader. Enrile resumed his position as the Minority Floor Leader after he was granted bail by the Supreme Court in August 2015.
  In 2013, Sotto filed a bill that would mandate all government and non-government employees to receive a 14th month of annual salary. Responding to the Department of Labor and Employment claims that the bill would worsen unemployment if implemented, Sotto said that the existing 13th month pay is not truly a bonus because there are actually 13 months in a year. "There are 52 weeks in a year divide it by four weeks in a month. Thirteen months."
caption: Sotto in 2012
exif: {"Image Make": "Canon", "Image Model": "Canon EOS-1D Mark III", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "160", "Image YResolution": "160", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2012:08:30 15:21:33", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ExifOffset": "240", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 2, 0, 0]", "Image GPSInfo": "1008", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "160", "Thumbnail YResolution": "160", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "1122", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "4708", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/100", "EXIF FNumber": "16/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Manual", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "1250", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2012:08:30 10:15:43", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2012:08:30 10:15:43", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "53/8", "EXIF ApertureValue": "27/8", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "135", "EXIF SubSecTime": "78", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "78", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "78", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "500", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "307", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "976", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "128000/41", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "72000/23", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "2", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Manual Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard"}