# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pantaleon-alvarez
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:43:21.760Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pantaleon-alvarez"
name: "Pantaleon Alvarez"
slug: "pantaleon-alvarez"
description: "Pantaleon Diaz Alvarez is a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the Representative of Davao del Norte's 1st district from 2016 to 2025, previously holding the position from 1998 to 2001. He served as the Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2016 to 2018. He also served as the Secretary of Transportation and Communications in the Cabinet of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from 2001 to 2002.\nHe is a stern advocate to shift the current centralized set-up of the Philippines into a federal form, pushing for the establishment of an indigenous state in Luzon and an indigenous state in Mindanao. Initially in favor of an independent Mindanao, Alvarez changed stance when Rodrigo Duterte talked about a federal Philippines with him. In 2017, Alvarez proposed a new set-up to spearheaded federalism in the Philippines."
tagline: "Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2016 to 2018"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rep._Pantaleon_Alvarez_(19th_Congress).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1958-01-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             1.314824515453117
  historical:           6.87776
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Pantaleon Alvarez"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump