Alan Peter Cayetano is a senator in the 20th Congress, serving his third term since 2007.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from University of the Philippines (UP) and his Juris Doctor degree from Ateneo de Manila School of Law. Cayetano comes from a political family: his father was the late senator Rene Cayetano, his sister Pia is an incumbent senator, his youngest brother Lino was a former Taguig City mayor, while the current mayor is his wife Lani.
Cayetano, a lawyer, first entered politics in 1992 as a councilor of Taguig. He would later become municipal vice mayor in 1995 and then representative of the lone district of Taguig-Pateros in the House of Representatives in 1998.
He served in the lower chamber for three consecutive terms until 2007, and for another term from 2019 to 2022, during which he became the 22nd speaker of the House of Representatives – but for just over a year. In 2020, he “resigned” as speaker minutes after lawmakers ousted him and proclaimed his rival Lord Allan Velasco as their new leader. He was supposed to share terms with Velasco but the deal fell through, with Cayetano saying he may have “misunderstood” then-president Rodrigo Duterte’s will on the supposed deal.
