Loren Legarda

Loren Bautista Legarda (born January 28, 1960 in Marikina City ) is a Filipino journalist , politician and long-time senator .

Loren Legarda (2008)

Life

Studies and activities as a journalist

Loren Legarda, whose grandfather Jose Bautista was a noted journalist and the last editor-in-chief of the Manila Times before the imposition of martial law by the dictatorial ruling President Ferdinand Marcos on September 21, 1972, studied after attending elementary school and high school at the Assumption Convent in Herran and San Lorenzo from 1977 to 1981 communication science at the University of the Philippines (UP) and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Broadcast Communications) cum laude. After completing her studies, she worked from 1981 to 1985 as a reporter and news anchor for the Newswatch program on RPN 9 in Quezon City .

She then completed a course in journalism at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), which she completed in 1985. She then worked from 1985 to 1986 at KSCI Channel 18 in Los Angeles and in the press office of the Philippine Consulate in Los Angeles. Upon her return to the Philippines, she was first presenter of the program Street Pulse radio station RPN before 1986 ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation changed and there not only to 1990, presenter and producer of the broadcast pep talk , but between 1986 and 1998 Message spokeswoman The World Tonight was. She was also the spokesperson and producer for the ABS-CBN program The Inside Story between 1990 and 1998 .

After completing postgraduate studies at the National Defense College of the Philippines in 1993 with a Master of Arts (MA National Security Administration), she also worked as a columnist for the daily Manila Bulletin since 1993 . Finally, in 1998, she became program development manager at ABS-CBN, where she was responsible for the development of news programs.

Senator and candidate for the vice presidency

Loren Legarda also began her political career in 1998 when she was first elected to the Senate for a six-year term and achieved the best result in the country with 15 million votes. During the second half of her tenure between 2001 and 2004, she was the leader of the majority parliamentary group in the Senate and thus the majority floor leader . She was the first woman in the history of the Philippines to hold this office and resigned from the Senate in 2004.

In the 2007 elections she was re-elected senator and, with 18 million votes this time, again achieved the best result among all elected senators. In the Senate of the 15th Congress , she chaired the committees on climate change , cultural communities and foreign affairs.

During her long term membership in the Senate, she participated in numerous legal proceedings. Among the most important laws, the Clean Air Act, the law on micro-enterprises in the include barangays , the anti-money waste law that drug prevention law, the electoral law for overseas Filipinos , the law for the smoking ban , the law against child labor , the law against kidnapping , the law against domestic violence and the law of November 13, 2002 (Republi Act RA 9177), which made the festival of the breaking of the fast ( Eid ul-Fitr ) a national holiday in the Philippines .

For her commitment to the Muslims living in the Philippines , she was awarded the honorary title Bai alibi (Honorary Princess of the Muslims) by the League Sultanate of Marawi in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao . She was also president of foundations for environmental protection such as the Save our Seas Foundation and the Trees for Life Foundation .

In the presidential elections on May 10, 2010 , she ran for the Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC) for the office of vice president, but achieved only third place with 12.21 percent of the vote after Jejomar Binay and Mar Roxas . In the election she was running mate of Manny Villar , the presidential candidate of the Nacionalista Party , who with 15.42 percent of the vote after Benigno Aquino III. and Joseph Estrada also only achieved third place in the field of applicants.

On May 13, 2013, Legarda was re-elected for another six-year term in the Senate.

Web links

• Biography on the Senate homepage
• CV (i-site.ph)