Raneo Abu

{{short description|Filipino politician (born 1967)}} {{Philippine name|Enriquez|Abu}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Raneo Abu | image = Rep. Raneo Abu (16th Congress).jpg | image_size = | caption = Portrait during the [[16th Congress of the Philippines|16th Congress]]  | office1 = Member of the [[House of Representatives of the Philippines|Philippine House of Representatives]] from [[Batangas's 2nd congressional district|Batangas's 2nd District]] | term_start1 = June 30, 2013 | term_end1 = June 30, 2022 | predecessor1 = [[Hermilando Mandanas]] | successor1 = [[Gerville Luistro]] | office3 = [[Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines]] | term_start3 = July 22, 2019 | term_end3 = November 18, 2020 | successor3 = | 1blankname3 = {{nowrap|House Speaker}} | 1namedata3 = [[Alan Peter Cayetano]] [[Lord Allan Velasco]] | term_start4 = July 25, 2016 | term_end4 = June 30, 2019 | successor4 = | 2blankname4 = {{nowrap|House Speaker}} | 2namedata4 = [[Pantaleon Alvarez]] [[Gloria Macapagal Arroyo]] | office5 = Member of the [[Bauan]] Municipal Council | term_start5 = June 30, 1992 | term_end5 = June 30, 1995 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|05|12}} | birth_place = [[Bauan]], [[Batangas]], Philippines | death_date = | death_place = | party = [[Nacionalista Party|Nacionalista]] (2012–present) | other_party = [[Independent politician|Independent]] (1992–2012) | education = Bauan High School [[Batangas State University]] [[University of Batangas]] | relations = | occupation = [[Politician]] | spouse = Maria Paz Dolor | children = 3 | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = | blank1 = Net worth | data1 = {{Philippine peso|15.7 million|link=yes}} (2018)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.congress.gov.ph/download/docs/saln.cy2018.alpha.pdf |title=Summary Report of Declared Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth of Members of the House of Representatives as of 31 December 2018 |date=2018 |website=www.congress.gov.ph}}</ref> }}

'''Raneo "Ranie" Enriquez Abu''' (born May 12, 1967) is a Filipino politician serving as the Representative of [[Batangas's 2nd congressional district]] from 2013 to 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.congress.gov.ph/members/search.php?id=abu-r|title=Member Information: Raneo "Ranie" Abu |accessdate=July 1, 2013|publisher=[[House of Representatives of the Philippines]]}}</ref> He served as the [[Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines]] from 2016 until his removal on 2020.<ref>{{Cite news|date=November 18, 2020 |title=More Cayetano allies lose plum posts in Velasco-led House |url=https://www.rappler.com/philippines/more-cayetano-allies-lose-posts-lord-allan-velasco-led-house/ |access-date=April 17, 2022 |website=Rappler |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Early life== Raneo Abu was born on May 21, 1965 He completed elementary and high school education in public schools in Lemery. In college, he took up civil engineering at Batangas State University (formerly Pablo Borbon Memorial Institute of Technology) in 1983 to 1984 before transferring to Lyceum of Batangas(formerly Western Philippine Colleges) to take up sociology from 1985 to 1988. He was a working student, notably at a bakery every summer. However, he dropped out from the university to help his parents by working.

==Political career ==

===Committee Support Services Division of the Philippine Senate (1990–1992)=== Abu's stint in government service started in 1988 when he became a youth development assistant in the office of then-[[Governor of Batangas|Governor]] Vicente Mayo. He also worked as a photocopying attendant at the Committee Support Services Division of the [[Senate of the Philippines|Senate]] from 1990 to 1992.

===Municipal Councilor of Bauan (1992–1995)=== In 1994, he ran as municipal councilor of Bauan and won. However, he served for only one term as he did not seek re-election in 1997 because his father was diagnosed with heart disease.

===Post-municipal councilorship (1995–2013)=== Instead, his father asked him to help [[Hermilando Mandanas]], who was then running for governor in 1995. Abu served as executive assistant for Mandanas, a position that he kept until 2004 when he was appointed supervising political affairs officer in the House of Representatives under the office of Mandanas, who was then elected representative of the [[Batangas's 2nd congressional district|2nd district of Batangas]].<ref name="xerox">{{cite news|url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/421309/former-xerox-boy-goes-to-congress#ixzz7JLkEnteJ|title=Former 'Xerox boy' goes to Congress|first=Marrah Erika|last=Rabe|date=June 5, 2013|newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer|access-date=January 29, 2022}}</ref>

===House of Representatives (2013–2022)=== In [[2013 Batangas local elections|2013]], Abu ran for representative of the 2nd district of Batangas under [[Nacionalista Party]] and won. He defeated [[Batangas Provincial Board|board member]] and actor [[Christopher de Leon]] of the [[Liberal Party (Philippines)|Liberal Party]] and Godofredo Berberabe of the [[United Nationalist Alliance]]. He was re-elected in [[2016 Batangas local elections|2016]] and in [[2019 Batangas local elections|2019]].

On July 10, 2020, Abu was one of the [[ABS-CBN franchise renewal controversy|70 representatives who voted to "yes" to deny the franchise renewal of ABS-CBN]].<ref>{{cite news|title=List of lawmakers who voted for and against ABS-CBN franchise renewal |work=[[Philippine Star|Philstar.com]] |url=https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2020/07/10/2027049/list-lawmakers-who-voted-and-against-abs-cbn-franchise-renewal |date=July 10, 2020 |accessdate=July 22, 2020 |last=Perez-Rubio |first=Bella}}</ref> In January 2021, Abu is announced to be part of the new bloc "''BTS sa Kongreso''" (named after the [[K-pop]] boy band group [[BTS]] of [[South Korea]]), a coalition group formed by [[Taguig–Pateros's 1st congressional district|Taguig–Pateros]] Representative and former [[Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines|House Speaker]] [[Alan Peter Cayetano]] during the [[18th Congress of the Philippines|18th Congress]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Luci-Atienza |first=Charissa |date=January 16, 2021 |accessdate=January 30, 2022 |title=Ok for Defensor to join Cayetano-led BTS sa Kongreso, says Rep. Romualdez |language=en |work=Manila Bulletin |url=https://mb.com.ph/2021/01/16/ok-for-defensor-to-join-cayetano-led-bts-sa-kongreso-says-rep-romualdez/ }}</ref>

In [[2022 Batangas local elections|2022]], Abu is already in term limit as a congressman. He endorsed his daughter, Reina Abu to succeed him but she lost to [[Gerville Luistro]].

===2025 House of Representatives election=== Abu ran again for congressman in [[2025 Batangas local elections|2025]] but lost to his successor, incumbent [[Gerville Luistro]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rappler.com/philippines/elections/list-quad-committee-lawmakers-running-against-opponents-2025-midterms/ |title=Test of popularity: Who are the quad committee members with opponents in 2025? |first=de Leon |last=Dwight |date=February 26, 2025 |access-date=February 26, 2025 |work=Rappler}}</ref>

==Personal life== Abu is married to Maria Paz Dolor, who has worked as a domestic helper in [[Italy]],<ref name="xerox" /> with whom he has three children.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://raphaelitsme.weebly.com/my-family.html|title=My Family|last=Abu|first=John Raphael|website=RAPHAELit'sme|accessdate=January 30, 2022}}</ref> Their eldest daughter, Maria Reina Abu-Reyes, is a physician by profession who is also in politics, being a member of the [[Batangas Provincial Board]] from the 2nd district since 2025.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://mb.com.ph/2021/10/15/3-way-fight-seen-in-batangas-2nd-district-congressional-race/|title=3-way fight seen in Batangas' 2nd District congressional race|first=Joenald|last=Rayos|work=Manila Bulletin|date=October 15, 2021|accessdate=January 30, 2022}}</ref>

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