Antonio Tinio
{{Short description|Filipino politician}}
{{Use Philippine English|date=January 2023}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Antonio Tinio
| office = House Deputy Minority Leader
| alongside1 = France Castro (2016–2019)
| office1 = Member of the Philippine House of Representatives for ACT Teachers
| termstart1 = June 30, 2010
| termend1 = June 30, 2019
| party = ACT Teachers
| termstart = July 26, 2010
| termend = June 30, 2013
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|04|19}}{{Cite web|title=21. ACT TEACHERS|url=https://comelec.gov.ph/php-tpls-attachments/2025NLE/COC_2025NLE/COC_Partylist162/21.%20ACT%20TEACHERS.pdf|access-date=October 30, 2024|website=Commission on Elections}}
| birth_place =Quezon City, Philippines
}}
Antonio "Tonchi" Luansing Tinio is a Filipino activist and former member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines for ACT Teachers Partylist from 2010 to 2019 and served as Deputy Minority Leader in the 15th congress. He also served as the national chairperson of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) from 2002 to 2012.{{Cite web|url=https://actphilippines.wordpress.com/about/|title=WHAT IS ACT-PHILIPPINES?|date=December 12, 2009|website=ACT Philippines|language=en-US|access-date=May 19, 2016}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.philstar.com/business-life/527610/leadership-performing-art|title=Leadership is a performing art|website=philstar.com|access-date=May 19, 2016}}
On December 4, 2024, Tinio and 74 others filed the second impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte, submitting one article of impeachment: betrayal of public trust.{{cite news|last=Lalu|first=Gabriel Pabico|title=VP Sara Duterte faces 2nd impeachment rap|url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2012345/vp-sara-duterte-faces-2nd-impeachment-rap|access-date=December 4, 2024|work=Philippine Daily Inquirer|publisher=INQUIRER.net|date=December 4, 2024|location=Manila, Philippines}}{{cite news|last=De Leon|first=Dwight|title=Sara Duterte slapped with second impeachment complaint|url=https://www.rappler.com/philippines/progressive-groups-file-second-impeachment-complaint-vice-president-sara-duterte-december-2024/|access-date=December 4, 2024|work=Rappler|publisher=Rappler Inc.|date=December 4, 2024|location=Manila, Philippines}}
Early and personal life
Before his stint in Congress, Tinio was a University of the Philippines Diliman (UP) professor from 1991 to 2010.{{Cite web|title=REP. ANTONIO L. TINIO|url=http://www.act-teachers.com/rep-tinio/ |access-date=May 19, 2016|website=ACT Teachers Party-list}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.arkibongbayan.org/2008-10Oct06-titser/titser.htm|title=Teachers commemorate World Teachers' Day with a protest action calling for higher salaries for teachers and rank-and-file government employees|last=|first=|date=2008|website=Arkibongbayan|publisher=|access-date=May 19, 2016}} He is the son of playwright, movie actor, and director Rolando Tinio and theater actress Ella Luansing.
Political career
As legislator, he was the principal author of Republic Act 10653, which broadened the tax exemptions for the 13th month pay (mandatory year-end bonus amounting to a month of salary) of both public and private sector employees in the Philippines, and the staunchest legislator-advocate of salary hikes for public school teachers.{{Cite web|url=http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2015/11/11/House-of-Representatives-approves-SSL.html|title=SSL hurdles final reading at lower house|website=CNN|access-date=May 19, 2016|archive-date=June 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610060940/http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2015/11/11/House-of-Representatives-approves-SSL.html|url-status=dead}}