Kuya Alex Lacson, 57, is a lawyer and author known for his best-selling patriotic books, including 12 Things Every Filipino Can Do To Help Our Country.

He briefly accepted the Kapatiran Party's nomination for vice president to field an opposition candidate against President Rodgrigo Duterte’s rumored bid but withdrew his candidacy to make way for Sen. Francis Pangilinan, citing his desire to unite the opposition vote. Lacson will instead seek a Senate seat in 2022, having previously launched failed bids for senator in 2010 and 6th District of Negros Occidental representative in 2001.

Lacson’s 2022 campaign centers on the radical reforms he views as urgent and necessary to reengineer key pillars of public life such as the political system, the economy, the bureaucracy and government as a whole.

He says he is running partly because the radical reforms he wants need enabling laws, such as establishing a two-party political and electoral system to prevent frequent shifting to winning parties, finding a solution to the entrenched political dynasty problem, taking some appointment power from the president to an independent commission that will appoint the members of constitutional bodies like the Commission on Elections as well as an independent prosecutor that will have jurisdiction and sufficient power to investigate and prosecute erring members of Congress and the office of the president.

Lacson also focuses on the agriculture sector, increasing employment opportunities for all, and cultivating youth entrepreneurs. Lacson also brings to the table solutions to helping the country’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic through the sound restructuring of the COVID-19 inter-agency task force and proper management of pandemic funds.

He is among the senatorial aspirants endorsed by opposition coalition 1Sambayan.