Wednesday 15 August 2012

FPJ proclaimed as National Artist by President Aquino

Fernando Poe Jr. was proclaimed as National Artist on August 16, 2012. President Aquino issued the proclamation through Proclamation No. 435, which confirmed an earlier declaration of Poe as National Artist in 2006.

Ronald Allan Poe y Kelley, better known as Fernando Poe, Jr. and colloquially known as FPJ and Da King, was aFilipino actor. He did not complete high school but went on to win numerous awards and prizes as an actor and film director. During the latter part of his career, he ran an unsuccessful bid for President of the Philippines in the 2004 presidential election against the incumbent president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Here's the Full Transcript of the Speech of President Aquino at the conferment of the Order of National Artists (posthumous) upon Fernando Poe Jr., August 16, 2012. Credit to Official Gazette for the text transcript.

Fernando Poe Jr declaration as National Artist

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