Juan Ponce Enrile

Juan Furagganan Ponce Enrile Sr.,  (born Juan Furagganan; February 14, 1924 – November 13, 2025), was a Filipino politician. He served as Justice Secretary and then Defense Minister. He was Senate President from November 2008 until his resignation on June 5, 2013.

He planned a coup against President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, however he quickly ended the plans when it was discovered by the government.

In 2022, he officially returned to government as the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel in the administration of President Bongbong Marcos. At the time of his death, he was the oldest serving member of the Marcos administration or of the country's cabinet.

Personal life
Enrile was born on February 14, 1924, in Gonzaga, Cagayan, to Petra Furagganan, the stepdaughter of a poor fisherman. He was born out of wedlock, as his father, the Spanish mestizo lawyer and influential provincial politician Alfonso Ponce Enrile, was already married. At the time of his birth, Alfonso served as a representative from the 1st district of Cagayan. He was baptized into the Philippine Independent Church (Aglipayan) as Juanito Furagganan.> He converted to Roman Catholicism at age 20. As a young man, he was reunited with his father in the City of Manila and took his secondary education at Saint James Academy in Malabon, Rizal. His father took legal steps in changing his name to Juan Ponce Enrile, the name that he would use for his pre-law enrollment.

On February 14, 2024, he turned 100.

On November 11, 2025, Enrile was hospitalized under critical condition for pneumonia in Makati. Enrile said that he did not want to die in a hospital, so he was moved back to his home. He died on November 13, 2025 at 4:21 P.M, at the age of 101. At the time of his death, he was an active member of President Bongbong Marcos's administration.

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Juan Ponce Enrile – Senate of the Philippines

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