One for the Guinness: The siblings' Senate

Once the Twentieth Senate convenes on July 28, the whole nation will see the spectacle of four sets of siblings: senators Jinggoy and JV, senators Raffy and Erwin, (Ben could have been the third) senators Pia and Alan Peter and senators Mark and Camille. Unprecedented. unparalleled and has absolutely no such thing in any of the 200 countries all over the world. Sui Generis.

- Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez

One-third of the entire Philippine Senate is controlled by only four families. That is democracy, Philippine style. The tiny city of Las Piñas whose population is smaller than one large barangay, is represented by two members of only one family, the Villars. The small city of Taguig is represented by a brother and a sister from the House of the Cayetanos. The microscopic city of San Juan is represented by two half-brothers, Jinggoy and JV. And the TV network and broadcast world is represented by senators Raffy and Erwin Tulfo. Had Ben won, there would have been three from one House of the Tulfos.