Sonny Matula Platform & Achievements, Here Are Updates On His Status In The Ongoing Elections

In the 2022 election, Sonny Matula is running as an independent to preserve democratic, human, and labor rights. Find out more about him.

Sonny Matula, a labor activist. He leads the NAGKAISA Labor Coalition and is the president of the Federation of Free Workers.

During Gloria Macapagal-presidency, Arroyo’s he served as commissioner of the Social Security System’s labor sector and executive director of the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission.

Sonny Matula Platform & Achievements -Here Are Updates On His Status In The Ongoing Elections

Sonny Matula is a labor activist, educator, and lawyer. He is the national president of the Federation of Free Workers and the chairperson of the Nagkaisa Labor Alliance, the country’s largest and broadest labor coalition. Matula is also a law professor and expert on workers’ rights and welfare who has advised employees, trade unions, and labor organizations.

Elections are expected to take place in 2022. There will be local and national elections, as well as the election of a new set of senators. He is one of the labor champions running for Senate.

He is running as an independent in the 2022 election but is also a member of Robredo’s and the 1Sambayan opposition coalition’s senatorial slates.

He is running a campaign to promote and defend democratic, human, and labor rights, such as prohibiting endo and contractualization schemes and establishing a national minimum wage. He promises to pursue an “Ayudang Sapat at Trabahong Ligtas” policy that strengthens the public health system and focuses on completing the agrarian reform program and modernizing industries, including a sustainable agricultural sector as quickly as possible.

He favors the renewal of ABS-CBN Corp.’s franchise and the transition to a federal government, although he is suspicious of recent lower-house charter reform suggestions. He opposes capital punishment, divorce legalization, and marriage equality, although he is sympathetic to same-sex civil unions.

In 2019 also, he ran for senator as part of the Labor Win coalition but received just 400,339 votes, placing him 50th out of 62 candidates.

Melba Cubal Is A Former Miss Bohol -Everything To Know About Her

Atty. Jose Sonny Matula is blissfully married to Ms. Melba Cubal, a former Miss Bohol whose family moved to Butuan City.

She holds a Magna Cum Laude degree in Business Administration with a major in Accounting from Mindanao State University. She has an MBA from De La Salle University and is a Certified Public Accountant. Cubal is currently employed at the University of Santo Tomas as a professor.

They have two children, Ignatius Matthew, a University of the Philippines-Los Banos BS in Applied Mathematics graduate, and Theresa Isabel, a UST-Alfredo M. Velayo College of Accountancy BS in Accountancy graduate. Both of their children have jobs in the private sector. Their family currently resides in the Laguna town of Binan.

Everything About Sonny Matula Family

Sonny Matula grew up in a low-income home. He is the son of a landless farmer and a dressmaker who immigrated to Mindanao in the 1950s from Salong, Kabangkalan, Negros Occidental; his parents’ identities, on the other hand, have yet to be discovered.

He was from Sultan sa Barongis, Maguindanao. His family was compelled to flee Cotabato after surviving the fratricidal conflict and establishing a home in Agusan.

He graduated valedictorian from Loreto Central Elementary School in Agusan del Sur and continued his studies as a NEWSBOY at the Agusan National High School in Butuan City.

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