Prime Minister of the Philippines

The **prime minister of the Philippines** () was the official job of the head of the government (whereas the President of the Philippines was the head of state) of the Philippines from 1978, until the People Power Revolution in 1986.

A limited version of this office existed for a short time in 1899, during the First Philippine Republic.

## List of prime ministers

|#|colspan=3|Name|Party|Took office|Left office|President|Legislature|Era|||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=2|1|rowspan=3 style="background:#cccccc"||rowspan=2|Apolinario Mabini|rowspan=2||rowspan=3|Non-partisan|January 2, 1899|January 23, 1899|rowspan=3|Emilio Aguinaldo|rowspan=3|Malolos Congress|Revolutionary Government|
|January 23, 1899|May 7, 1899|rowspan=2|First Republic||||||||||||||
|2|Pedro A. Paterno||May 8, 1899|November 13, 1899|||||||||||||
|colspan=10|_Office abolished_ November 14, 1899—October 14, 1943||||||||||||||||
|-|style="background:;"||Jorge B. Vargas||Nacionalista Party|October 14, 1943|August 17, 1945|Jose P. Laurel|National Assembly|Second Republic|||||||
|colspan=10|_Office abolished_ October 14, 1943—June 12, 1978||||||||||||||||
|3|rowspan=3 style="background:"||Ferdinand E. Marcos||rowspan=3|KBL|June 12, 1978|June 30, 1981|rowspan=3|Ferdinand E. Marcos|rowspan=2|Interim Batasang Pambansa|Martial law||||
|rowspan=2|4|rowspan=2|Cesar E. A. Virata|rowspan=2||July 28, 1981|July 23, 1984|rowspan=3|Fourth Republic||||||||
|July 23, 1984|February 25, 1986|rowspan=2|Regular Batasang Pambansa||||||||||||||
|5|style="background:;"||Salvador H. Laurel||UNIDO|February 25, 1986|March 25, 1986|Corazon C. Aquino|||||||||
|colspan=10|_The presidential system is used; the President is head of both state and government by virtue of the 1987 Constitution_||||||||||||||||

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## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Prime Minister
- **body**: the Philippines
- **insignia**: Seal of Prime Minister Philippines 1981-1986.svg
- **insigniacaption**: Seal of the Prime Minister (1981–1986)
- **image**: File:Salvador Laurel.jpg
- **imagesize**: 200px
- **imagecaption**: **Salvador Laurel**
Last Prime Minister of the Philippines
- **style**: Prime Minister
(informal)
The Honourable
(formal)
His Excellency
(formal, diplomatic)
- **status**: Abolished
- **type**: Head of government
- **appointer**: President of the Philippines, The President
- **appointer qualified**: with members' advice and consent
- **precursor**: _Office established_ (Philippine Revolution#Declaration of Independence, pre-1899)
President of the Philippines (Sb. 1973, 1978)
- **formation**: January 2, 1899 (first creation)
June 12, 1978 (second creation)
- **first**: Apolinario Mabini, Apolinario Mabini y Maranan (first creation)
Ferdinand Marcos (second creation)
- **last**: Salvador Laurel, Salvador H. Laurel
- **abolished**: November 13, 1899 (first abolition)

March 25, 1986 (second abolition)
- **succession**: President of the Philippines (1899–1978; 1986-present)