Koko Pimentel

Koko Pimentel
Pimentel in 2018
Senate Minority Leader
Assumed office
July 25, 2022
Preceded byFranklin Drilon
22nd President of the Senate of the Philippines
In office
July 25, 2016  May 21, 2018
Preceded byFranklin Drilon
Succeeded byTito Sotto
Senator of the Philippines
Assumed office
August 11, 2011
Senate positions
Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
In office
July 23, 2019  June 30, 2022
Preceded byLoren Legarda
Succeeded byImee Marcos
Chair of the Senate Trade, Commerce and Entrepreneurship Committee
In office
May 25, 2018  June 30, 2022
Preceded byMigz Zubiri
Succeeded byMark Villar
Chair of the Senate Electoral Reforms and People's Participation Committee
In office
July 24, 2018  June 30, 2019
Preceded byLeila de Lima
Succeeded byImee Marcos
In office
July 22, 2013  June 30, 2016
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byLeila de Lima
Chair of the Senate Justice and Human Rights Committee
Assumed office
August 21, 2024
Preceded bySonny Angara
In office
July 22, 2013  June 30, 2016
Preceded byFrancis Escudero
Succeeded byLeila de Lima
Commissioner of the National Youth Commission for Mindanao
In office
1996–1998
PresidentFidel V. Ramos
ChairpersonAmina Rasul
Personal details
Born
Aquilino Martin de la Llana Pimentel III

(1964-01-20) January 20, 1964
Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
Political partyNacionalista (2024–present)
Other political
affiliations
PDP (2001–present)
Spouses
Jewel May Lobaton
(m. 2000; ann. 2018)
    (m. 2018)
    Children3
    Parents
    Alma mater
    OccupationPolitician
    Profession
    • Lawyer
    • lecturer

    Aquilino Martin "Koko" de la Llana Pimentel III (Tagalog pronunciation: [pimenˈtel]; born January 20, 1964) is a Filipino politician and lawyer who has served as a senator of the Philippines since 2011. He has served as Senate minority leader since 2022 and previously served as the senate president from 2016 to 2018.

    The eldest son of former senate president Nene Pimentel, the younger Pimentel is the first child of a previous Senate president to hold the office. Pimentel narrowly lost his bid for the Senate in 2007 to Migz Zubiri, which led to an electoral protest that overturned the initial result, resulting in his proclamation as a senator, taking office in August 2011, four years following the election. Pimentel was subsequently re-elected to the Senate in 2013 under Team PNoy and in 2019 under the Hugpong ng Pagbabago.

    Pimentel ran in the 2025 Philippine House of Representatives elections to represent Marikina's first district in the lower house, facing off against Marcelino Teodoro, the outgoing mayor of Marikina. He lost to Teodoro by a wide margin.