Talk:List of former presidents of the Philippines who pursued public office

Requested move 20 February 2018

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The result of the move request was: moved. See general agreement to either rename this page or to delete it. I also see where this article was on a WikiProject list as an "asked for" article, so its deletion might be a bit contentious. List of former Philippines presidents who pursued public office is the new title, and editors may take whatever steps necessary to determine this article's notability. And in accord with closing instructions, if this article is kept, any editor at any time may propose a new name for this list article. Happy Publishing! (closed by page mover)  Paine Ellsworth   put'r there 18:21, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

List of former Presidents of the Philippines who ran again → ? – There has to be a clearer way to title this article without using the phrase "who ran again", but I have no idea, considering that the scope of this article is about presidents who apparently ran for any office after their presidency, even running for president again. Steel1943 (talk) 23:53, 20 February 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Galobtter (pingó mió) 05:32, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment – maybe List of former Presidents of the Philippines who ran for subsequent public offices (though that is very long).  CookieMonster755 ✉  16:48, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Post-presidential politics of Philippine Presidents? Dekimasu よ! 04:03, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment I believe this name is awkward as it is because perhaps this list shouldn't exist. Politicians run for office every time. Is there any similar list from any other country so as to compare? –Ammarpad (talk) 06:08, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
 * It's not one article on running for office, but there is Category:Post-presidencies of Presidents of the United States. Dekimasu よ! 19:57, 27 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Per Ammarpad, it's possible we should be asking if this page should exist. The category of post-presidencies exists because we have four notable articles on U.S. president post-presidencies. Is the concept of Filipino presidents running for other offices a notable concept, or just a cool FYI list that doesn't meet the standards of encyclopedic coverage? I don't read Tagalog, so it's very possible that coverage of this concept exists, but I wouldn't be surprised if it does not.--Yaksar (let's chat) 03:15, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment: I say AfD. — usernamekiran (talk)   19:56, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
 * You missed pinging me and, but I'll answer anyway: that's all fine and good, and I don't really feel this is a necessary article, but how to resolve the move request is the proximal issue. Maybe Steel1943's fine with this being closed as no consensus? Dekimasu よ! 22:44, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
 * If anyone feels the desire to bring this to AfD, be my guest. A "no consensus" close for the move is fine by me since this has been open for a couple of weeks now. Steel1943  (talk) 13:19, 7 March 2018 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

More or less
Article currently reads:

''Since the adoption of the 1987 Constitution, a former president may not run for the office unless s/he has served more than 4 years; the previous 1973 constitution provided no limit while the 1935 constitution provided only one reelection. The term limit has prevented any incumbent president to run again for office; one exception was Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who has served for 3 and a half years prior to her election in 2004.'' (my emphasis)

That would make sense if it read less than rather than more than, and it shows other signs of having been written by someone who is not a native English speaker... who has served should probably read who had served.

Constitution of the Philippines (1987) should tell us. Andrewa (talk) 17:14, 5 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Article VII, Section 4. Dekimasu よ! 19:50, 6 March 2018 (UTC)