Ronald Cardema
Filipino government official
Ronald Gian Carlo Lapitan Cardema (born April 12, 1985) is a Filipino politician who is the founder and chairman of the Duterte Youth. President Rodrigo Duterte twice appointed him as chairman of the National Youth Commission.
Early life and education
Cardema was born on April 12, 1985. He actively participated in extra-curriculars as a student. In elementary school, he was a leader in the Boy Scouts of the Philippines while in secondary school he was high school corps commander under the Maquiling School’s Citizen Army Training. In 2008, Carderma was corps commander of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. He also became UP Los Banos’ ROTC class president in the unit.
Cardema was a cadet at the Philippine Military Academy but was dismissed for allegedly communicating with Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison. According to Sison, Cardema was removed from the academy after he called for justice for the death of his uncle under a military death squad.
As of 2019, Cardema did not graduate from a college or university.
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