Jejomar Binay

Also known as: Jojo Binay — the familiar form the Library of Congress carries as its authorized heading · Jesus Jose Cabauatan Binay — birth name; "Jejomar" a portmanteau of Jesus, Joseph, and Mary · Jejomar C. Binay — the initial styling of official records · VP Binay — the styling of the 2010–2016 term, the thirteenth holder of the office · Mayor Binay — the Makati styling, across two mayoral stints and three decades · Rambotito — the nickname of the coup years, for defending the Aquino government in the streets

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Definition

Jejomar Binay (born Jesus Jose Cabauatan Binay; November 11, 1942, Paco, Manila) is a Filipino lawyer and politician — the 13th Vice President of the Philippines (June 30, 2010 – June 30, 2016) and the dominant figure of modern Makati politics, appointed acting mayor of the city by President Corazon Aquino on February 27, 1986, two days after Mayor Nemesio Yabut died in the closing hours of the People Power Revolution, and subsequently elected to six mayoral terms (1988, 1992, 1995, 2001, 2004, and 2007). (Wikipedia — Jejomar Binay) A martial-law detainee who organized legal aid under the dictatorship — founder of the LUMABAN legal-aid group in 1970, prisoner at the Ipil Reception Center in 1973, member of the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) under Jose W. Diokno, and co-founder of MABINI in 1980 — he rose from the opposition bar to the second office of the state, winning the 2010 vice presidency as Joseph Estrada’s running mate under PDP–Laban with 14,645,574 votes (41.65 percent) against Mar Roxas’s 13,918,490 (39.58 percent), the 727,084-vote margin this wiki’s Mar Roxas entry documents as the third-narrowest in the office’s history. (Wikipedia — Jejomar Binay, Wikipedia — 2010 Philippine presidential election)

He is a living former official, and this entry keeps to the public-record register. Binay left the vice presidency after a failed 2016 presidential run — 5,416,140 votes (12.73 percent), fourth of five candidates, the figures this wiki’s 2016 election entry records, with Gringo Honasan as his running mate — and then lost each of his returns to elective office: the 2019 Makati first-district congressional race to Romulo “Kid” Peña Jr. and the 2022 Senate race, in which his 13,263,970 votes (23.88 percent) placed him thirteenth, one seat short. (Wikipedia — 2016 Philippine presidential election, Wikipedia — 2022 Philippine Senate election, Wikipedia — Makati’s 1st congressional district) The criminal cases the Ombudsman filed over Makati buildings were settled in his favor by Sandiganbayan acquittals in December 2024 and August 2025, examined below. (Rappler, Wikipedia — Makati Science High School) He holds no public office as of 2026, remains president of the United Nationalist Alliance, and the family’s hold on Makati continues under his daughter Nancy, mayor since June 30, 2025. (Wikipedia — United Nationalist Alliance, Wikipedia — Nancy Binay)

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Wikipedia	Jejomar Binay
Wikidata	Jejomar Binay (Q380154)
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Wiktionary	Binay (Tagalog proper noun — “a surname”; the family name, not the man)
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)	Binay, Jojo (Library of Congress name authority n93903947; variants Binay, Jejomar C. and Cabauatan Binay, Jejomar; born November 11, 1942)
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Google Scholar	Jejomar Binay Jesus Jose Cabauatan Binay 1942 Makati acting mayor 1986 Corazon Aquino six terms PDP-Laban UNA 2010 vice president 14645574 41.65 Roxas protest Presidential Electoral Tribunal HUDCC 2016 presidential 5416140 12.73 Honasan 2019 Makati 2022 Senate Sandiganbayan acquittal parking building
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Also Known As

Jojo Binay — the familiar form the Library of Congress carries as its authorized heading
Jesus Jose Cabauatan Binay — birth name; “Jejomar” a portmanteau of Jesus, Joseph, and Mary
Jejomar C. Binay — the initial styling of official records
VP Binay — the styling of the 2010–2016 term, the thirteenth holder of the office
Mayor Binay — the Makati styling, across two mayoral stints and three decades
Rambotito — the nickname of the coup years, for defending the Aquino government in the streets

Examples and Analogies

The detainee who reached the second office: arrested and jailed in 1973 under the Marcos dictatorship, Binay was within a decade a FLAG lawyer under Diokno and MABINI co-founder — and within two decades Vice President, the same court-first trajectory this wiki’s Joker Arroyo entry records for his FLAG colleague. (Wikipedia — Jejomar Binay)
The split ticket that made him: in 2010 Benigno Aquino III won the presidency on the Liberal line while Binay — running mate of the defeated Joseph Estrada — won the vice presidency for PDP–Laban: rivals in the two highest offices, the arrangement Philippine voters repeated at the next opportunity, as this wiki’s 2010 and 2016 election entries both record. (Wikipedia — 2010 Philippine presidential election, Wikipedia — 2016 Philippine presidential election)
The dynasty as city institution: five members of the family — Binay himself, his wife Elenita, his son Junjun, and his daughters Abigail and Nancy — have held the Makati mayoralty, Nancy becoming the city’s twenty-second mayor in 2025. (Wikipedia — Nancy Binay)
Verified public-record data:
Born: November 11, 1942, Paco, Manila — the birth certificate reads November 10, and he personally observes the 11th; orphaned at nine, raised by his uncle Ponciano Binay
Education: University of the Philippines Diliman, BA political science 1962; UP College of Law, LLB 1967, bar 1968; master’s degrees from the University of Santo Tomás (1980), the National Defense College, and Philippine Christian University
Opposition record: founded LUMABAN, 1970; detained 1973 at the Ipil Reception Center; FLAG member under Jose W. Diokno; co-founded MABINI, 1980, with Renato Saguisag, Lorenzo Tañada, and Joker Arroyo; recognized by the Human Rights Victims’ Claims Board in 2018 as a motu proprio victim of the dictatorship
Makati: acting mayor from February 27, 1986; acting governor of Metro Manila, December 31, 1987 – February 2, 1988; elected mayor 1988, 1992, and 1995 (Makati became a city on February 4, 1995); term-limited 1998, succeeded by his wife Elenita (1998–2001); elected again 2001, 2004, and 2007, serving until June 30, 2010
National posts: head of the Metro Manila authority, January 9, 1990 – June 30, 1991 (under Aquino); MMDA chairman, June 30, 1998 – January 20, 2001 (under Estrada); HUDCC chairman and Presidential Adviser on OFW Concerns, June 30, 2010 – June 22, 2015, resigning amid his break with President Benigno Aquino III
Parties: Laban (1978–1983); PDP–Laban (1983–2014; national chairman 2010 until his resignation in March 2014); United Opposition (2005–2010); United Nationalist Alliance — founded April 4, 2012 as an alliance with Estrada’s PMP, relaunched as a full party July 1, 2015; he remains UNA president with Nancy as chairman
2010: 14,645,574 votes (41.65 percent) to Roxas’s 13,918,490 (39.58 percent) — margin 727,084; the Roxas protest was declared sufficient in form and substance on July 12, 2010
2016: 5,416,140 votes (12.73 percent), fourth place, UNA, with Honasan for vice president
2019: lost Makati’s 1st district — Romulo Peña Jr. 71,035 (51.39 percent), Binay 65,229 (47.19 percent)
2022: thirteenth of the Senate race, 13,263,970 votes (23.88 percent), UNA, a guest candidate on the Lacson–Sotto and Robredo–Pangilinan slates among others
Legal dispositions: Sandiganbayan demurrer acquittals — December 2024, Makati Science High School case; August 22, 2025, Makati City Hall Building II case (one count malversation, four counts graft, nine counts falsification)
Later civic record: founding dean of the University of Makati College of Law, 2017; scouting’s Bronze Wolf award, 2018 (Wikipedia — Jejomar Binay, Wikipedia — 2022 Philippine Senate election, Wikipedia — Makati’s 1st congressional district, Wikipedia — United Nationalist Alliance)

Usage Scenarios

1. Studying the 2010 Vice-Presidential Count

Binay’s 41.65-to-39.58 percent win is the modern reference case of a narrow vice-presidential margin: certified figures of 14,645,574 against 13,918,490, a 727,084-vote gap, and a protest — filed in July 2010 and declared sufficient in form and substance that July 12 — that never reached a recount before it was dismissed in 2016, the record this wiki’s Presidential Electoral Tribunal entry carries. (Wikipedia — 2010 Philippine presidential election, Wikipedia — Presidential Electoral Tribunal)

2. Teaching the Vice Presidency Under a Rival President

The 2010–2016 pairing — a Liberal president with a vice president elected on the defeated ticket’s line — made Binay HUDCC chairman and OFW adviser until his June 22, 2015 resignation, a case study in the cohabitation the constitution’s separate election of the two offices invites. (Wikipedia — Jejomar Binay)

3. Analyzing the 2016 Five-Way Race

From early frontrunner to fourth place with 12.73 percent, Binay’s 2016 collapse — alongside a 2015 Senate inquiry into the Makati buildings that reporting of the time credited with derailing the bid — is the standard exhibit of how local corruption narratives travel to national contests. (Wikipedia — 2016 Philippine presidential election, Rappler)

4. Documenting a City-Level Political Dynasty

The Makati record — Binay 1986–1998, Elenita 1998–2001, Junjun 2010–2015, Abigail 2016–2025, Nancy from 2025 — gives researchers an unbroken, fully documented forty-year family sequence, including its internal splits: Nancy’s 2025 mayoral win over her brother-in-law Luis Campos, and Abigail’s 2025 Senate loss in fifteenth place. (Wikipedia — Nancy Binay, Wikipedia — Abigail Binay)

5. Citing Settled Dispositions in Coverage

The 2024 and 2025 Sandiganbayan acquittals ended the Makati buildings prosecutions at the demurrer stage — acquittals on the merits, final by double jeopardy — and coverage of Binay’s legal record should now quote them at that settled status. (Rappler, Wikipedia — Makati Science High School)

Strategies

The running-mate wager: contesting the vice presidency on a defeated rival’s ticket — Estrada’s, in 2010 — let Binay pool the non-Liberal vote while Aquino and Estrada split the presidency, the arithmetic that made him the first local official elected to the second office. (Wikipedia — 2010 Philippine presidential election)
Build the party vehicle: UNA — alliance in 2012, full party by July 2015 — carried his 2016 bid and the family’s subsequent candidacies, the organization-building this wiki’s election entries track across the party system. (Wikipedia — United Nationalist Alliance)
The city as springboard: six elected mayoral terms and the national posts they yielded — Metro Manila chief under two presidents — converted one city’s machinery into a national campaign, the strategy every Makati-focused dynasty study begins with. (Wikipedia — Jejomar Binay)
Cabinet office as opposition platform: holding HUDCC while positioning against the president for 2016 sustained national visibility until the break cost the post, the utility and the limit of the arrangement. (Wikipedia — Jejomar Binay)
For researchers: a living subject — date every status claim, keep to the current-status register, and quote the certified figures exactly: 14,645,574 (2010), 5,416,140 (2016), 65,229 (2019), 13,263,970 (2022). (Wikipedia — 2022 Philippine Senate election, Wikipedia — Makati’s 1st congressional district)

Security and Safety Measures

The living-person register: Binay is alive and out of office; this entry reports public-record facts, settled court dispositions, and documented events only, with nothing on unresolved matters beyond their documented procedural status. (Wikipedia — Jejomar Binay)
Acquittals quoted at their finality: the August 22, 2025 demurrer rulings — an acquittal on the merits not appealable by the prosecution because of double jeopardy — and the December 2024 Science High School acquittal are the settled record; anything still pending is stated as pending. (Rappler, Wikipedia — Makati Science High School)
Keep the family’s files distinct: the son Junjun’s administrative record — Ombudsman dismissal in October 2015, overturned by the Court of Appeals on May 3, 2018, then a May 28, 2019 appellate affirmance of grave misconduct and perpetual disqualification over the Makati Science High School project — is a separate record from the father’s criminal acquittals, and the two must not be merged. (Wikipedia — Jejomar Binay Jr.)
The martial-law record as credential: the 1973 detention, FLAG service, and the Human Rights Victims’ Claims Board’s 2018 recognition are the documentary basis for his dictatorship-era biography, in the same claims record this wiki’s Joker Arroyo entry cites. (Wikipedia — Jejomar Binay)
For researchers: give the birth date at its documented variance — certificate November 10, personal observance November 11, 1942 — and the “13th vice president” numbering at its standard source. (Wikipedia — Jejomar Binay)

Historical Context

Binay’s biography begins in Paco, Manila, in 1942 — orphaned at nine, working through the University of the Philippines to a 1967 law degree — and turns on the dictatorship: LUMABAN in 1970, the Ipil detention in 1973, FLAG under Diokno, MABINI in 1980. People Power made him: Yabut’s death on February 25, 1986 opened the Makati mayoralty, Aquino’s appointment installed the opposition lawyer two days later, and elections kept him there — 1988, 1992, 1995; the interlude of Elenita’s term in 1998–2001 while he headed the MMDA; then 2001, 2004, and 2007 again, punctuated by the 2006 ghost-employees suspension he resisted behind City Hall barricades until the Court of Appeals enjoined it, the Sandiganbayan’s pre-arraignment dismissal of the office-furnishings graft case, and the 2007–2009 BIR freeze and tax-deficiency litigation. (Wikipedia — Jejomar Binay)

The 2010 election carried him past Roxas by 727,084 votes — the count contested, the protest never adjudicated — and the vice presidency gave him HUDCC and the OFW portfolio until the June 22, 2015 resignation. The 2016 run ended at 12.73 percent; the Ombudsman’s charges over the Makati buildings, filed in 2016, ended in the December 2024 and August 2025 acquittals; and the elections since — a 2019 congressional loss to Peña by 5,806 votes, a 2022 thirteenth-place Senate finish 1.84 million votes short — closed his personal electoral record. The family’s did not close: Abigail served three mayoral terms to 2025, lost a Senate bid, and Nancy took the mayoralty in 2025 over her brother-in-law, the fifth Binay to hold it. Binay himself, at 83 in 2026, holds no office — the former vice president as party elder, UNA’s president, and founding law dean at the city’s university. (Wikipedia — 2010 Philippine presidential election, Rappler, Wikipedia — Nancy Binay, Wikipedia — Abigail Binay, Wikipedia — Jejomar Binay Jr., Wikipedia — Makati’s 1st congressional district)

Challenges and Controversies

The Makati Buildings Cases and Their Settlement

The parking-building prosecution — a ₱2.288-billion project in five phases, charges of rigged bidding for Hilmarc’s Construction and Mana Architecture, and bid notices allegedly published only in a tabloid — ended on August 22, 2025, when the Sandiganbayan Third Division granted the demurrer, acquitted Binay of one count of malversation, four of graft, and nine of falsification, acquitted his son and 22 co-accused, and held that the prosecution “miserably failed to prove the required quantum of evidence.” The companion Makati Science High School case — a ₱1.3-billion building against an indicated fair value near ₱470 million — ended the same way in December 2024. Both dispositions are final; the political argument over how the cases shaped the 2016 election, where a 2015 Senate probe was widely seen as derailing his candidacy, is the residue that remains. (Rappler, Wikipedia — Makati Science High School)

The 2010 Count and Its Unfinished Protest

Roxas v. Binay stands in the Presidential Electoral Tribunal’s record as the protest that outlasted the term: filed in July 2010, declared sufficient in form and substance on July 12, 2010, never resolved past pre-trial, and dismissed in 2016 after Binay’s term ended — so the third-narrowest vice-presidential margin in the country’s history was never tested by revision, exactly the tribunal-record framing this wiki’s Presidential Electoral Tribunal entry carries. (Wikipedia — 2010 Philippine presidential election, Wikipedia — Presidential Electoral Tribunal)

The Administrative Record and Its Limits

The earlier mayoralty controversies were settled on their own records — the 2006 suspension enjoined by the Court of Appeals, the furnishing-contract graft case dismissed for lack of factual basis before arraignment, the tax litigation ending in a 2009 Court of Tax Appeals ruling on the deficiency — but the Ombudsman’s 2015-era administrative proceedings against Binay himself over the Makati buildings are not carried to a documented final administrative disposition in the standard account consulted here; only the criminal cases’ acquittals are settled, and the difference should be preserved in any citation. (Wikipedia — Jejomar Binay)

The Dynasty Question

Forty years of family rule — five mayors, two senators, and congressional seats distributed among parents, children, and in-laws — have made Makati the textbook Philippine city dynasty, and the record now includes its internal ruptures: Junjun’s Ombudsman ouster in 2015 and his 2019 loss to his sister, Abigail’s 2025 Senate defeat while her husband lost the mayoralty to another sister, and the father’s own 2019 loss to Peña in the family’s congressional backyard. Whether the 2025 outcome consolidated the dynasty or split it is the open question commentators now track; this entry records the documented sequence only. (Wikipedia — Nancy Binay, Wikipedia — Abigail Binay, Wikipedia — Jejomar Binay Jr.)