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Her Honor
HOMEPAGE OF ZAMBOANGA CITY MAYOR MARIA CLARA L. LOBREGAT



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Biography

Personal/ Family:



Name – Maria Clara Lorenzo Lobregat

Nickname – "Caling"

Civil Status – Widow

Home Address – Nuñez Street, Zamboanga City and 2587 Taft Avenue, Malate, Metro Manila

Congressional Office Address – Room 111, House of Representatives, Quezon City

Birth Date – April 26, 1921.

Birthplace – Zamboanga City

Parents – Pablo Lorenzo and Luisa Rafols Lorenzo (deceased).

Husband – Celso "Tito" Lobregat (deceased).

Children – Remedios Concepcion, Celso, Pablo, Jose, Lourdes and Jerome. Grandchildren – nineteen.

Brothers and Sisters – Pablo Lorenzo, Jr., Isabel Lorenzo, Maria Luisa Lorenzo, and Luis Lorenzo (deceased).



Education:



She attended three Catholic schools namely, Pilar College (Zamboanga City), Maryknoll and St. Scholastica (Manila), and is the recipient of the following degrees, "honoris causa" – Doctor of Humanities, Ateneo de Davao University, 1979, Doctor in Business Administration , Aquinas University, 1980, and Doctor in Educational Administration, Western Mindanao State University (Zamboanga City). Her abiding concern for education is manifested by her past membership in the Board of Trustees of the Ateneo de Zamboanga, Ateneo de Manila University Scholarship Foundation and the Xavier University Scholarship Foundation. She was also a member of the Board of PAASCU. Zamboanga City’s model public secondary school, the Don Pablo Lorenzo Memorial High School was established principally through her efforts. It was named by the city’s Sangguniang Panlungsod in honor of her father, who was formerly Secretary of Education. She is the principal author of Republic Act No. 7474, which created the Zamboanga City Polytechnic College to assist the technical training of the city’s youths. She is for the preservation of the various Philippine languages and has consistently spoken forcefully against the government’s insistence on the use of Tagalog in non- Tagalog regions and its bi-lingual medium of instruction policy. She wants more emphasis on English competence. She was co-author of numerous proposals in Congress pertaining to Education, which includes establishing free public secondary education, prohibiting the frequent change of prescribed textbooks, and regionalizing board examinations.



Public Service:



She was elected delegate to the 1971 Constitutional Convention, representing Zamboanga. Today, she is serving her third term as Congresswoman representing Zamboanga City, having been elected in 1987 and thereafter re-elected twice in 1992 and 1995.

As a congresswoman, she was a member of the Commission on Appointments (CA). Her Committee membership in the House of Representatives include National Defense; Trade and Industry; Transportation and Commissions; Agriculture and Food, Tourism; Women; Inter- Parliamentary Relations and Diplomacy ; Public Order & Security ; Education and Culture ; and Legislative Franchises.

In the Commission on Appointments, she served in the following Committees: Chairman, Public Works and Highways ; Vice - Chairman, Foreign Affairs ; National Defense; Member, Agriculture and Food Constitutional Commissions and Offices; Education, Culture and Sports, Environment and Natural Resources; Finances, Budget and Management; Government Corporations and other Offices; Health, Interior and Local Government, Regional Consultative Commissions and Regional Autonomous Governments; Justice and Judicial Bar Council; Labor, Employment and Social Welfare; Science and Technology, Tourism and Economic Development; Trade and Industry and Transportation and Communications. She was a delegate representing the House of Representatives to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) conference in London 1989; the IPU Conference in Canberra Australia 1993; and the World Conference on Women and IPU Parliamentarians Day, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.

She was an active member of the House of Representatives, authoring or co-authoring various measures of national and local importance. In 1996, she was selected one of the Outstanding Congressmen by the Philippine Graphic Magazine. Her landmark legislation for Zamboanga City’s main benefit is Republic Act No. 7903 which is the "Act Creating in Special Economic Zone and Freeport in Zamboanga City" more popularly known as the ZAMBOECOZONE Law. This enactment is envisioned to usher Zamboanga City into a new age of economic development. She is also the principal author of Republic Act No. 7272, which converted the Zamboanga Regional Hospital into the Zamboanga City Medical Center, now a major medical facility in Southwestern Mindanao (Region IX). Recently and upon her initiative, Congress approved to upgrade the center into a 500- bed capacity hospital. She likewise authored Republic Act No. 7474 which converted the Zamboanga School of Arts and Trades into a polytechnic college, now referred to as the Zamboanga City Polytechnic College.

In 1991, Congress approved her bill declaring October 12 (Fiesta Pilar Day) of every year a special non-working holiday in Zamboanga City, now embodied within Republic Act No. 7350. Thru her initiative and efforts, Zamboanga City has received more than P325 Million in various infrastructure and other projects from the national government.



Women’s Concerns:

As President of the Philippine Organization of Women Elected Representatives (POWER), she consistently supported and encouraged legislative enactments on women’s rights. She is also a principal advocate for the use of the Filipina dress, the Kimona’t Patadyong, which she wears faithfully in all public and private functions. In the House, she is easily recognizable by the native dress she wears with pride and dignity. In 1992, Lifestyle Asia Magazine chose her as one of the five "best dressed women of the Philippines" a clear vote for the native dress in the midst of an ever growing western influenced fashion. She has also been honored for her Filipina attire by a group of prominent Manila couturiers led by Ben Farrales, noted Filipino journalist Julie Yap Daza has this to say about her and the Kimona’t Patadyong she wears:


"She is as hardworking and practical as they come, a real worker who operates from commonsense, intuition, feminine logic, and that invaluable guide called the inner voice of experience. All that this down–to-earth-ness translates to is an unerring instinct for swhat’s simple and doable, and nowhere is this reflected more clearly and succinctly than in the clothes she wears." (Lifestyle Asia Magazine, July 1992).



The SPCPD – her Role:

Together with other personalities from Mindanao, she led the opposition against the creation of the Southern Philippines Council for Peace and Development (SPCPD) and is the lead petitioner in the case pending before the Supreme Court questioning the validity of the government’s Peace Agreement with the MNLF and Executive Order No. 371, which establishes the SPCPD. Among other things, she cites constitutional, legal, and practical constraints and particularly focuses on the government’s failure to recognize its rejection by Mindanao’s Christian-dominated areas, which includes her legislative district of Zamboanga City. She is one of the Tres Marias (the other two being Congresswomen Daisy Fuentes and Luwalhati Antonino of South Cotabato) cited by the Philippines Free Press in its editorial of September 14, 1996 this wise: "Whatever follows the peace agreement and the Christian opposition to it, from the clash between the two has already come one unqualified blessing: a quality of political leadership such as Mindanao has never known . The leadership is shown by the Tres Marias."



Private Sector Involvement: She is a member of various private organizations, including Zonta International-Zonta Club of Manila and the Philippine Constitutional Association (PHILCONSA). She was a former member of the Board of Governors of the Philippine National Red Cross.



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