Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman (PNA file photograph by Yancy Lim)
MANILA, Philippines – Albay First District Rep. Edcel Lagman handed away on Thursday on the age of 82, his household confirmed.
“It’s with profound unhappiness that we announce the passing of our beloved father,” stated Tabaco Metropolis Mayor Krisel Lagman in an announcement.
The lawmaker died at precisely 5:01 p.m. as a result of cardiac arrest.
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Lagman, a longtime advocate for human rights and the rule of regulation, was remembered for his “integrity, compassion, and fearlessness.”
“He left this world the best way he lived his life – with integrity, compassion, and fearlessness. He fought till the tip with the dogged dedication, tenacity, and unshakable hopefulness that outlined all that he stood for,” the assertion learn.
His household vowed to honor his legacy. “He’ll reside on in our hearts, and we are going to proceed to honor his reminiscence by residing our lives the best way that might make him proud,” it added.
The veteran lawmaker performed a key position within the passage of a number of landmark legal guidelines, together with the abolition of the dying penalty, Complete Agrarian Reform Regulation, and the Centenarian Act.
Lagman was well known because the principal advocate of the Reproductive Well being Act and a number one creator of the regulation stopping little one marriage.
Till his passing, he served because the president of the Liberal Get together. (PNA)
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