Senator Grace Poe files Senate Resolution 508 for Miriam to be awarded the Quezon Cross

Sen. Grace Poe urged President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday to nominate the late Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago for the Quezon Service Cross, the highest national recognition in the country for her legacy of “dedicated, outstanding and selfless” service to the Filipino people. Poe made the call in a resolution she has filed at the Senate. In Senate Resolution No. 508, the senator urged Duterte to nominate the “highly esteemed constitutional and international law expert, author, professor and mother for conferment of the award, posthumously.” Defensor Santiago died on September 29, 2016 after a two-year bout with cancer. “Miriam Defensor Santiago [has] dedicated her life to public service through her work in all the branches of government: judicial, executive and legislative. Throughout her 46-year career in the public service, Santiago embodied values that she herself demanded of leaders: academic, professional and moral character,” Poe said in the resolution.