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Senator of the Philippines
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| Born | January 28, 1960 Manila, Philippines |
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| Residence | Manila |
| Alma mater | University of the Philippines |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Profession | Journalist |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Loren Legarda (born January 28, 1960) is a Filipino broadcast journalist and politician. The Senate of the Philippines ( Filipino: Senádo ng Pilipínas) is the upper chamber of the bicameral Legislature of the Philippines, the Events 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The Excommunication of Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor is lifted Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The City of Manila The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP The Nationalist People's Coalition or NPC is a Political party in the Philippines. The Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino or United Opposition ( Coalition of United Filipinos) or KNP was the coalition of the dominant opposition in the Philippines The Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats, also more popularly known as simply Lakas or Lakas-CMD is the current ruling Political party in the Philippines The City of Manila Alma mater is Latin for "nourishing mother" It was used in Ancient Rome as a title for the mother Goddess, and in Medieval The University of the Philippines (or Unibersidad ng Pilipinas in Filipino and commonly abbreviated as U A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends Events 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The Excommunication of Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor is lifted Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP A politician (from Greek " Polis " is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of Politics or a person In the 2004 Philippines general election, she ran for the position of Vice-President as the running mate of Fernando Poe, Jr. As of 2007, she is serving her second term as an incumbent senator in the Philippines. Presidential elections, legislative elections and local elections were held in the Philippines on May 10, 2004. The Vice President of the Philippines is the second highest executive official of the Philippine government Ronald Allan Kelley Poe ( August 20, 1939 &ndash December 14, 2004) better known as Fernando Poe Jr The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP As a journalist, she had received the national honor of the Ten Outstanding Young Men and Women (TOYM) award and more recently she has received awards in the Davos World Economic Forum as a Global Leader of Tomorrow (GLT) and from the United Nations Environment Programme for her advocacy for the environment. The World Economic Forum (WEF is a Geneva -based Non-profit foundation best known for its Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland The UN Environment Programme (or UNEP) coordinates United Nations environmental activities assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies
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Life
Loren was born on January 28, 1960 in Manila to parents from Antique Province. Antique is a province of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. She has Spanish and Karay-a lineage and speaks Ilonggo, Tagalog, English, and her native Kinaray-a. Spanish settlement in the Philippines first took place in the late 16th century during the Spanish colonial period of the islands The Karay-as, or Hamtikanon, are part of the wider Visayan ethnolinguistic group who constitute the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group. Hiligaynon (or " Ilonggo " is an Austronesian language spoken in Western Visayas in the Philippines. Tagalog is one of the major languages used in the Philippines. Philippine English is the variety of English used in the Philippines by the media and the vast majority of educated Filipinos. Kinaray-a is an Austronesian language spoken mainly in Antique Province in the Philippines.
Political career
She ran for the Senate in 1998 under the Lakas-NUCD-UMDP Party. The Senate of the Philippines ( Filipino: Senádo ng Pilipínas) is the upper chamber of the bicameral Legislature of the Philippines, the Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) The Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats, also more popularly known as simply Lakas or Lakas-CMD is the current ruling Political party in the Philippines She was elected with more than 15 million votes, becoming the senator with the highest number of votes in that year's election. After the 2001 elections she was chosen to be the Senate's Majority Floor Leader.
Senator Legarda played a crucial role in the expeditious release of five military and police officers and personnel held captive by the CCP-NPA-NDF in April 1999. April 1999 was a month with thirty days The following events also occurred during the month The captives included General Victor Obillo of the Philippine Army. In April 2001, Senator Legarda again championed human rights when she led the Humanitarian and Peace Mission for safe and successful return of Army Major Noel Buan to his family after almost two years of captivity by rebel groups. April 2001: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September She was also instrumental in the release of fellow journalist Arlene dela Cruz from her abductors in Jolo, Sulu. Jolo is a volcanic island in the southwest Philippines. It is located in the Sulu Archipelago, between Mindanao and Borneo, and has a population For the Star Trek character see Hikaru Sulu. For the sultanate see Sultanate of Sulu.
Throughout her six-year tenure in the Senate from 1998 to 2004, she authored legislation benefitting women and children, such as the Anti-Domestic Violence Act and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act. She is also the author of the Ecological Solid Waste Management Law and the Tropical Fabric Law, which is consistent with her advocacy for indigenous fabric.
She has put to school dozens of former child laborers through the Libro ni Loren Foundation, and conducts regular medical missions benefiting indigent breast cancer patients through the Bessie Legarda Memorial Foundation.
She is an environmentalist, and is a recipient of the United Nations Environment Program Award (UNEP), in Turin, Italy, in 2001 for her outstanding work through Luntiang Pilipinas (Green Philippines). With this program, she planted over two million trees all over the Philippine archipelago. She is also the recipient of the Global Leader for Tomorrow (GLT), from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in the year 2000.
2004 elections
In 2003, she quit the administration party Lakas to join the opposition KNP coalition of Fernando Poe, Jr.
In the 2004 election, she lost to fellow ABS-CBN anchorman and Senator Noli de Castro by a very slim margin of 800,000 votes, amid allegations of massive fraud by de Castro and the administration. Presidential elections, legislative elections and local elections were held in the Philippines on May 10, 2004. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino or United Opposition ( Coalition of United Filipinos) or KNP was the coalition of the dominant opposition in the Philippines Ronald Allan Kelley Poe ( August 20, 1939 &ndash December 14, 2004) better known as Fernando Poe Jr Presidential elections, legislative elections and local elections were held in the Philippines on May 10, 2004. ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation ( (ABS-CBN " A lto B roadcasting S ystem- C hronicle B roadcasting N etwork" Manuel Leuterio de Castro Jr (born July 6, 1949) better known as Noli de Castro, is a Politician and former broadcast journalist in the
PET Case No. 003, Legarda v. De Castro, January 18, 2008
After her bid in the election, she filed an electoral protest before the Supreme Court sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal. The Supreme Court of the Philippines ( Filipino: Kataas-taasang Hukuman ng Pilipinas or Korte Suprema) is the country's highest judicial court as well In a PowerPoint presentation on the alleged electoral fraud case filed by Legarda against Noli de Castro, who won the vice-presidency against her in Philippine general election, 2004, Legarda and her principal witness, Segundo Tabayoyong, showed the Kapihan sa Manila forum how the cheating was done. Microsoft PowerPoint is a proprietary Presentation program developed by Microsoft. It was a simpler and new way of cheating, used for the first time in the elections of 2004. They alleged that instead of changing the ballots at the precincts -- as was done in the past, which is difficult and labor-intensive -- the cheating was done on the election return (ER), the summary of the votes in the precincts. They alleged that these spurious ERs were prepared in advance, by a special force of about 200 persons in two places in Metro Manila (one in a hotel near the Edsa highway) and then sent to the provinces. The Commission on Elections has admitted that it overprinted 32,000 sets of these ERs before the elections. It has not explained fully what happened to these excess ERs. Of the approximately 5,000 ERs analyzed, 3,000 were found to be spurious. The vertical tally bars ("taras") used to mark the votes on the ERs were written very neatly and not in the uneven manner when written in the precincts because of stress and haste. There are columns where there are totals of votes but no bars. There are totals that do not tally with the bars. Thumb marks used to close the columns -- so no new bars could be added afterwards-were small, purposely smudged to make identification impossible. Required signatures were missing. Some had only initials instead of signatures. The analysis also alleges that the team gave De Castro an average of a 70-vote margin over Legarda, and Ms Arroyo, a 100-vote margin over Poe. Therefore, the 32,000 sets of overprinted ERs could translate to a vote-margin rate of approximately 2. 1 million votes in the Legarda-De Castro vice-presidential contest and around 3 million votes in the Poe-Arroyo presidential race.
Personal life
Born Lorna Regina Bautista-Legarda in Metro Manila, she is the only daughter of Antonio Cabrera Legarda of Manila and San Pablo City, Laguna and of Bessie Gella Bautista of Metro Manila and Antique. The City of Malabon is one of the cities and municipalities in the Philippines that make up Metro Manila. The City of San Pablo ( Filipino: Lungsod ng San Pablo) a first class city in the province of Laguna, Philippines, Laguna is a province of the Philippines found in the CALABARZON region in Luzón. The City of Malabon is one of the cities and municipalities in the Philippines that make up Metro Manila. Antique is a province of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. She is the granddaughter of one of the pillars of Philippine journalism, Jose P. Bautista, editor-in-chief of the pre-Martial Law Manila Times.
She was a valedictorian from the Assumption Convent in grade school and cum laude graduate from the University of the Philippines. The Assumption College is a private Catholic Women's college in Makati City, Philippines established in 1959 providing education from pre-school to The University of the Philippines (or Unibersidad ng Pilipinas in Filipino and commonly abbreviated as U She was also a popular commercial model as a teenager, appearing in various television and print ads.
She started her career in journalism as a reporter of RPN-9. While working as a broadcast journalist, she obtained a master’s degree in National Security Administration from the National Defense College of the Philippines, where she emerged as topnotcher (NDCP awarded her gold medals for Academic Excellence and Best Thesis) and where she was the youngest in the class. The National Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP ( Filipino: Dalubhasaan ng Tanggulang Pambansa ng Pilipinas) ( DTPP) is an educational training She is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force Reserve Corps.
She reached the peak of her television career while she was with ABS-CBN, when she used to anchor The World Tonight (ABS-CBN). ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation ( (ABS-CBN " A lto B roadcasting S ystem- C hronicle B roadcasting N etwork" The World Tonight is an English-language newscast of ABS-CBN. She also hosted the highly acclaimed current affairs program The Inside Story, also from ABS-CBN. She received more than thirty major awards during her 20-year television career, including the Catholic Mass Media Hall of Fame, KBP Golden Dove Award, and the Gawad CCP, among many others.
While she was with the Senate, prior to her candidacy for the Vice-President position, she hosted Kabalikat, a docu-drama show and Tara Tena, a youth drama previously aired at ABS-CBN When She left The World Tonight (ABS-CBN). The World Tonight is an English-language newscast of ABS-CBN.
She is highly regarded by the Muslim population in the Philippines and the Maranao Sultanate League bestowed on her the title of "Bai Alabi," or "Princess. "
2010 Presidency
On January 10, 2008, President Joseph Estrada officially announced (at the People Asia magazine’s "People of the Year" awards at the Hotel InterContinental, Makati City) that he picked himself as the 2010 opposition presidentiable: "Wala sa kanila mananalo. Events 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Jose Marcelo Ejercito (born on April 19, 1937) better known as Joseph Ejercito Estrada, or Erap, is a Film actor in the Philippines InterConinental is a brand of upscale luxury Hotels originally founded by Pan Am, under Juan Trippe, and now owned by InterContinental Hotels Group The City of Makati, or simply Sarili ko na lang ang pipiliin ko (None of them is winnable. I will only pick myself). " The commissioned December 15 to 30 survey of presidentially showed Loren Legarda leading, followed by Noli De Castro, Sen. Manuel Leuterio de Castro Jr (born July 6, 1949) better known as Noli de Castro, is a Politician and former broadcast journalist in the Francis Escudero, Sen. Francis Joseph Guevara Escudero (born October 10, 1969 Panfilo Lacson as 4th most favored, followed by Senate President Manuel Villar, Jr. Panfilo Morena "Ping" Lacson (born June 1, 1948) is a retired Director-General of the Philippine National Police, and is currently a member of Manuel "Manny" Bamba Villar Jr (born December 13, 1949) is a Filipino businessman and politician currently the President of the Senate , Mar Roxas, Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay, Metro Manila Development Authority chair Bayani Fernando, Sen. Manuel "Mar" Araneta Roxas II (born May 13, 1957) is a senator of the Philippines. Background Jejomar Cabauatan Binay was born in Paco Manila but grew up in Makati with his uncle Ponciano after Binay’s parents - Diego Binay of Bauan Batangas and Lourdes Cabauatan History February 27 1975 President Ferdinand Marcos issued Presidential Decree 824 creating the Metropolitan Manila Commission (MMC Bayani Fernando (born July 25, 1946) is the current Secretary of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA Richard Gordon, and Quezon City Mayor Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. Richard Gordon may refer to Richard Gordon (English author (born 1921 English novelist screenwriter and doctor Richard Gordon (AJC, Jewish [1]
On January 29, 2008, Philippine Sen. Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Loren Legarda donated P 1 million ($ 1 = P 40) needed for 4-year-old deaf Filipino Raphael Angelo Provido’ cochlear implant at the Philippine General Hospital. Filipinos or the Filipino people are the citizens of the Philippines. A cochlear implant (CI is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of Sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing The Philippine General Hospital (PGH is a tertiary state-owned hospital administered and operated by the University of the Philippines Manila, the University of the Guillermo Mallillin, president of the Gruppo Technico Medico International Inc. , distributes the cochlear implant device in the Philippines. The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP Its Australian counterpart granted 70% discount on the device, which costs $20,000 a pair. [2]
See also
- Genuine Opposition
- www.supremecourt.gov.ph, gmanews.tv/video, P.E.T. Case No. 003, Legarda vs. De Castro
References
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