style="font-size: larger;" | Melchor Chavez

Political Party:	Kilusang Bagong Lipunan Kilusang Bagong Lipunan The Kilusang Bagong Lipunan , formerly the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan ng Nagkakaisang Nacionalista, Liberal, at iba pa, , is a political party in the Philippines...  (2004 to date)
Born:	August 6, 1951 Kidapawan City Kidapawan City Kidapawan City is a 1st class city in the province of Cotabato, Philippines per Department of Finance Order No. 20-2005. It is the capital city of Cotabato Province. It is a favorite tourist destination in the late October to December and in the summer, where thousands of tourist climb the majestic...
Spouse:	Susana Pacheco Chavez

Melchor "Mel" Gongora Chavez is a Filipino

Filipino people

The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....

 radio and print journalist currently running for the Philippine Senate. Chavez was born on August 6, 1951 in Kidapawan City

Kidapawan City

Kidapawan City is a 1st class city in the province of Cotabato, Philippines per Department of Finance Order No. 20-2005. It is the capital city of Cotabato Province. It is a favorite tourist destination in the late October to December and in the summer, where thousands of tourist climb the majestic...

, Cotabato

Cotabato

Cotabato , is a landlocked province of the Philippines located in the SOCCSKSARGEN region in Mindanao...

. He ran for the Senate in 2004 with fellow Kilusang Bagong Lipunan

Kilusang Bagong Lipunan

The Kilusang Bagong Lipunan , formerly the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan ng Nagkakaisang Nacionalista, Liberal, at iba pa, , is a political party in the Philippines...

 candidate Oliver Lozano

Oliver Lozano

Atty. Oliver "Oli" Ocol Lozano - , was the legal counsel of the late Ferdinand Marcos. He was born in Ilocos Norte and currently married to Norma Junio, with daughter, Atty. Evangeline Lozano, and 3 other children.-Education and career:...

but failed. Melchor Chavez had tried to run for senator in past elections. In 1992, the Supreme Court disqualified him from running for senator. In 1998, Comelec did not give due course to his certificate of candidacy. In 2001, Chavez ran as the official candidate of the KBL; he garnered a measly 2% of the total votes cast. COMELEC allowed him to run again in 2004, but allies of another Chavez—Alyansa ng Pag-Asa candidate Francisco Chavez, the same candidate who questioned Melchor’s candidacy in 1992—sought Melchor’s disqualification. COMELEC eventually declared Melchor as a nuisance candidate.