Sherwin "Win" Ting Gatchalian is a Filipino politician and businessman who has served as the 34th president of the Senate of the Philippines since 2026, a role he briefly held in an acting capacity as
Gatchalian in 2021
Gatchalian at the 3rd Alliance of Batangas Educators and School Administrators in 2012
Gatchalian (right) is sworn in by Tito Sotto (left) as the new president pro tempore of the Senate on June 3, 2026. He was later designated as acting Senate president.
Gatchalian (center) receiving the award for The Outstanding Young Men 2011
The Philippine presidential line of succession defines who becomes or acts as president upon the incapacity, death, resignation, or removal from office of a sitting president or a president-elect.
Bongbong Marcos takes the oath of office as the 17th president of the Philippines at the National Museum of Fine Arts on June 30, 2022. Sara Duterte had taken her own oath of office as vice president ahead on June 19, 2022.
Cesar Virata as prime minister was the head of the executive committee created in 1973. The government body which was later abolished in 1984 could have assumed powers of the president, in an event President Ferdinand Marcos vacated the presidency.
In 1944, following the death of Manuel L. Quezon, Sergio Osmeña became the first vice president to succeed to the presidency