Minority Floor Leader of the Senate of the Philippines

The **Minority Floor Leader of the Senate**, or simply the **Senate Minority Floor Leader**, is the leader elected by the minority political grouping of the Senate of the Philippines to be their official leader in the body.

The current Minority Floor Leader of the Senate is Franklin Drilon who was elected on February 28, 2017.

## List of Minority Floor Leaders

|#|Minority Leader|Party|Legislature|Term|Era|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|**1**|rowspan="2"|**Claro M. Recto**|rowspan="2" bgcolor=|**NP**|**Ninth**|1931–1934|rowspan="2"|**Insular Government**|
|**Tenth**|1934–1935|||||||||
|colspan="3"|_None_|**First**|1945–1946|rowspan="2"|**Commonwealth**|||||
|rowspan="3"|**2**|rowspan="3"|**Carlos P. Garcia**|rowspan="3" bgcolor=|**NP**|**Second**|rowspan=2|1946–1953||
|**First**|rowspan=8|**Third Republic**||||||||
|**Second**|1950–1953|||||||||
|**3**|**Lorenzo M. Tañada, Sr.**|bgcolor=|**NCP**|**Third**|1954–1957|||||
|**4**|**Ambrosio B. Padilla**|rowspan=5 bgcolor=|**LP**|rowspan=2|**Fourth**|1958–1960||||
|**5**|**Ferdinand E. Marcos, Sr.**|1960–1961||||||||
|**6**|**Estanislao A. Fernandez, Jr.**|**Fifth**|January 22, 1962–December 30, 1965|||||||
|**(4)**|**Ambrosio B. Padilla**|**6th Congress**|January 17, 1966–December 30, 1969|||||||
|**7**|**Gerardo Manuel L. Roxas, Sr.**|**7th Congress**|January 26, 1970–September 23, 1972|||||||
|**8**|**Juan Ponce Enrile, Sr.**|bgcolor=|**Nacionalista**|**8th Congress**|July 27, 1987–January 18, 1992|rowspan=17|**Fifth Republic**|||
|**9**|**Wiberto E. Tañada**|bgcolor=|**Liberal**|**9th Congress**|January 18, 1992–June 30, 1995|||||
|**10**|**Edgardo J. Angara**|rowspan=2 bgcolor=|**LDP**|rowspan=3|**10th Congress**|August 28, 1995–October 10, 1996||||
|**11**|**Neptali A. Gonzales I**|October 10, 1996–January 26, 1998||||||||
|**12**|**Ernestto M. Maceda, Sr.**|bgcolor=|**NPC**|January 26, 1998–June 30, 1998||||||
|**13**|**Teofisto Guingona, Jr.**|bgcolor=|**Lakas**|**11th Congress**|July 27, 1998–February 7, 2001|||||
|**14**|**Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.**|bgcolor=|**PDP–Laban**|rowspan=2|**12th Congress**|July 23, 2001–June 3, 2002||||
|**15**|**Vicente "Tito" C. Sotto III**|bgcolor=|**LDP**|June 3, 2002–July 26, 2004||||||
|rowspan="2"|**(14)**|rowspan=2|**Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr.**|rowspan=2 bgcolor=|**PDP–Laban**|**13th Congress**|July 26, 2004–July 23, 2007|||
|**14th Congress**|July 23, 2007–June 30, 2010|||||||||
|**16**|**Alan Peter S. Cayetano**|bgcolor=|**Nacionalista**|**15th Congress**|July 26, 2010–July 22, 2013|||||
|**(8)**|**Juan Ponce Enrile, Sr.**|bgcolor=|**UNA**|rowspan=3|**16th Congress**|July 22, 2013–June 30, 2016||||
|rowspan=2|**–**|rowspan=2|**Vicente C. Sotto III** (Acting)|bgcolor=|**NPC**|rowspan=2|July 28, 2014–August 2015|||
|bgcolor=|**UNA**|||||||||
|**17**|**Ralph G. Recto**|rowspan=3 bgcolor=|**Liberal**|rowspan=2|**17th Congress**|July 25, 2016–February 27, 2017||||
|rowspan=2|**18**|rowspan=2|**Franklin M. Drilon**|rowspan=2|February 28, 2017–present|||||
|**18th Congress**||||||||||

## Related pages

- Majority Floor Leader of the Senate of the Philippines

## References

- List of Senators of the Philippines

## Other websites

- Senate of the Philippines

## Infobox (political post)

- **post**: Minority Floor Leader
- **body**: the Senate of the Philippines
- **insigniasize**: 200px
- **image**: JPPFL Sen. Franklin Drilon (cropped).jpg
- **imagesize**: 200px
- **incumbent**: Franklin Drilon
- **incumbentsince**: February 28, 2017
- **style**: The Honorable
<small>(Diplomatic)</small>
- **appointer**: Elected by the Senate of the Philippines
- **formation**: 1931
- **inaugural**: Claro M. Recto
- **website**: [http://www.senate.gov.ph/ Senate of the Philippines]