The office of the vice president is a key position in the government and a good training ground for the highest office, if not a prelude to it. Several alliance shifts later and after turning her back on her aspirations for the presidency, Loren Legarda has recently announced her second bid as vice president to still an undisclosed president candidate. But does she have what it takes to be vice president or will she become a political lame duck?
It would seem that the personal credentials and the track record of Legarda as senator indicate otherwise. She completed her primary and secondary schooling at the Assumption College with honors, graduated cum laude in broadcast communication from the University of the Philippines, and topped her class at the National Defense College of the Philippines. She is a reserved officer (with the rank of lieutenant colonel).
Her career as a journalist flourished at ABS-CBN, arguably the top local TV network. Her many programs including the highly acclaimed The Inside Story are used as resource materials and she has at least 30 industry awards. Her popularity as a broadcast journalist paved the way for Legarda to become the first woman to top the Senatorial race twice. She is the first woman elected majority leader by her peers. This Bai’ a Labi (Princess), and United Nations Environment Programme awardee authored or endorsed, many bills consistent with her advocacy on the youth, anti-drug drive, children and women’s rights, and the environment. And who could forget her as a teary senator-judge during the impeachment trial of former President Joseph Estrada at the refusal to open the so-called second envelope which sparked the EDSA 2 which ousted Estrada?
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rosario // Dec 11, 2009 at 2:54 pm
She’s not abandoning her party, She’s only a guest candidate of Mr. Manny Villar.. Try to look at this link..
http://danfer45.sosblog.com/The-first-blog-b1/Loren-and-the-NPC-b1-p1.htm
totoyjoel // Dec 17, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Loren Legarda is not a political butterfly, she was left by Chiz, and Villar chose her because of her advocacies and platform… A statement of Mr.Manny Villar “We share common vision for the country. Both have found common ground in our stand in leading the country. People were asking, ‘Bakit si Loren?…Bakit hindi?”
- Senator Manny Villar, 2010 Presidential Aspirant, November 2009
Know more about Loren
http://www.lorenlegarda.com.ph
sheene // Jan 8, 2010 at 11:40 am
im a single mom also, thank you for posting this kind of article on net, when i have my free time i love to surf the net and i love to read articles about politics, i just don’t like the tern you used here, i don’t think Madam Loren Legarda is a political butterfly, it is your opinion and i respect it.. BUT NO MATTER what the tittle you will say about loren i will still vote for her for Vice- President, because she is the only one deserving to serve our country .!
sheene // Jan 8, 2010 at 11:41 am
im a single mom also, thank you for posting this kind of article on net, when i have my free time i love to surf the net and i love to read articles about politics, i just don’t like the term you used here, i don’t think Madam Loren Legarda is a political butterfly, it is your opinion and i respect it.. BUT NO MATTER what the tittle you will say about loren i will still vote for her for Vice- President, because she is the only one deserving to serve our country
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