After spending 18 years championing progressive laws as a senator, Miriam Santiago tried for the presidency a second time in 2016 with then-senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as her running mate
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Agham Road and BIR Road in Quezon City have been renamed Senator Miriam P. Defensor-Santiago Avenue after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. allowed the bill to lapse into law. The measure was first passed by the House of Representatives on March 21 this year, and then by the Senate on August 14. Although the bill does not have the President’s signature, it lapsed into law since Marcos did not act on it 30 days after it was passed to his office.
A recipient of the the Quezon Service Cross and the Ramon Magsaysay Award for government service, Santiago was known for having served in all three branches of the government.