FORMER Senate president Edgardo Angara died of “an apparent heart attack” on Sunday, his son Senator Juan Edgardo Angara said.
He was 83.
“Sad to say my father[,] former Sen[ator] Edgardo Javier Angara[,] passed on from this life this morning at the age of 83, from an apparent heart attack,” the younger Angara said in a Twitter post.
He said they were still arranging funeral arrangements for his father.
Angara, who served as senator from 1987 to 1995 and from 2001 to 2013, was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as a special envoy to the European Union in May 2017.
He ran for vice president in 1998 but lost to then senator Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Angara was President Joseph Estrada’s Agriculture secretary from 1999 to 2001 and an executive secretary in 2001.