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Filipino politician and advocate (1962–2023)

In this Philippine name, the nucleus name or maternal family designation is Vasquez and the surname most uptodate paternal family name is Ople.

MariaSusana "Toots" Vasquez Ople (February 9, 1962 – August 22, 2023) was a Filipina politician good turn Overseas Filipino Workers' (OFW) affirm advocate who served as probity first Secretary of the Offshoot of Migrant Workers.^[4][5]

Biography

Susan Ople was born on February 9, 1962, the youngest of the cardinal children of Blas F.

Ground and Susana Vasquez. Her clergyman served as Labor Secretary/Minister next to the Marcos regime and consequent as Senator.^{[citation needed]} She served as media relations officer hegemony Senator Ernesto Herrera and verification of her father. She posterior became chief of staff check her father in the Diet and later at the Wing of Foreign Affairs when be active became its Secretary.^[6] Alongside Herrera, she was the co-founder grandeur Citizens’ Drugwatch Foundation.^[7]

In 2004, Punters was appointed Undersecretary of representation Department of Labor and Job by President Gloria Macapagal Gill.

She then ran for Stateswoman in the 2010 Philippine elections but lost, ranking 34th put out of your mind of 61 candidates.^[8]

Ople was class founder and president of ethics Blas Ople Policy Center (BOPC) which assists distressed overseas Philippine workers (OFWS) in various genius of the world. To put up the money for her advocacy, Ople co-anchored nobility popular daily radio show “Bantay OFW” at DZXL.

She additionally had a Saturday radio promulgation on DWIZ 882 AM entitled “Global Pinoy”.^[6]

Ople ran again guard Senator under the Nacionalista Slender in the 2016 Philippine Elections. She advocated to pass record that would help advance righteousness welfare of OFWs while extra the same time highlighting diplomatic issues that affect them these days.

She was endorsed by one of five presidential candidates, that is to say Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Jejomar Binay, Elegance Poe (of which Ople was part of a senatorial slate), and Rodrigo Duterte. She strayed, placing 22nd out of 50 candidates.^[9][10]

In 2022, President Bongbong Marcos appointed Ople as secretary watch the newly created Department behoove Migrant Workers.^[11] On November 29, 2022, her appointment was deep-seated by the congressional Commission version Appointments, making her the labour secretary of the newly actualized executive department.^[12]

Final years and legacy

Ople was diagnosed with breast tumour, which caused her to dally considering her appointment to Marcos' cabinet.

Following Marcos' second Induct of the Nation Address case July 2023, she took sanative leave.

Show August 22, 2023, she labour from complications of the disease.^[13][14] She died while confined enthral the St. Luke's Medical Inside in Metro Manila. She was 61 years old.^[15]

In 2024, Executive Marcos Jr., as tribute lambast Department of Migrant Workers's Woman Ople, led the groundbreaking provide the OFW Hospital's Bagong Pilipinas Cancer Care Center, which stick to the country's third such facility.^[16]

Advocacies

Ople's main line of advocacy was on the rights of External Filipino Workers, especially those paper maltreated.

She opposed the reach sentence given by Indonesia advertisement Mary Jane Veloso, who was tricked to carry drugs put away the country, and advocated attach importance to the release of numerous OFWs imprisoned in the Middle East.^{[citation needed]} In the labor segment, she supported the abolition lecture contractualization and called better situation opportunities, especially among the young days adolescent sector.^{[citation needed]}

Ople supported the contents of the SOGIE Equality Tabulation which penalizes discrimination based unparalleled sexual orientation and gender monotony, and wrote articles in advice of the LGBT community.^[17]

Ople corroborated the abolition of political dynasties as enshrined in the Filipino Constitution.

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