{"id":6672,"date":"2016-07-09T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T02:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=6672"},"modified":"2016-07-08T17:53:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T09:53:53","slug":"meet-leni-robredo-phs-new-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/07\/09\/meet-leni-robredo-phs-new-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Leni Robredo: PH’s new Vice President"},"content":{"rendered":"

While everyone knows exactly who the new president<\/a> is, not everyone is privy to who our vice president, Leni Robredo, is apart from being a member of the Liberal Party, which former president Benigno Aquino III was also a member of. Here are a few things that you should know about the Philippines’ new vice president:<\/span><\/p>\n

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THE SECOND MEETING. Vice President Leni Robredo (left) is seen meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte during a courtesy call by the latter. Photo courtesy of <\/em>lenirobredo.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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1. She was a human rights lawyer before being a congresswoman.<\/em><\/strong> She used to work for the Sentro ng Alternatibong Lingap Panligal<\/em> (SALIGAN), a national alternative lawyer\u2019s group that helps the marginalized sectors before being elected as the representative for the Third District of Camarines Sur. She would\u2019ve been a Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge by now had her husband, the late Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse Robredo, not met his untimely demise.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Her simple lifestyle is no ruse. <\/em><\/strong>While most people have taken to social media to say that it is merely a ruse, Robredo\u2019s simple lifestyle of taking public transport and shying away from the limelight is her way of honoring her husband\u2019s tsinelas\u00a0<\/em>leadership, leading through living a simple life and being connected with the masses.
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3.<\/strong> Roxas was more than her running mate.<\/strong> <\/em>She has been quoted<\/a> saying that former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas was \u201cJesse\u2019s second wife.\u201d During her speech at her husband\u2019s third death anniversary in August 2015, she also said that Roxas was a good friend of her husband.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. She is very organized, <\/em><\/strong>but not to the point where you\u2019d call it being obsessive-compulsive (OC). According to an article on Spot.ph<\/a>, she has multiple lists on her hard drive pertaining to her household (pantry, storeroom, books and magazines, catalogued photographs). There\u2019s also a label for everything in the Robredo house: food closet, medicine cabinet, school and office supplies drawers, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. She has a permanent neck injury. <\/em><\/strong>In the same report, it says the Vice President got this injury from a car accident many moons ago. Most of the time, she doesn\u2019t feel any pain; but when she does, she wears a neck brace. Her husband used to put her on a traction machine for about 30 minutes a day.<\/span><\/p>\n

6. She married her boss. <\/em><\/strong>Most people think it\u2019s impossible to do so, but not the Vice President. Robredo took a job at the Bicol River Basin Development Program, which was then led by her would-be husband, Jesse. In a report from Rappler<\/a>, her first meeting with Jesse was as unromantic as it gets: she brought a recommendation letter from Jesse\u2019s politician-uncle to try to land the job, but the man was not impressed.<\/span><\/p>\n

7. She loves Choc-Nut. <\/em><\/strong>Yes, that one thing that every Filipino seems to crave for is a favorite of the Vice President, so much so that it was served during her inauguration<\/a> last June 30, albeit not in the way Filipinos are used to seeing it: it was used as filling for buchi<\/em>, a rice cake made from sweet rice flour molded into balls usually filled with sweet bean paste.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you have more information about the Vice President that the people ought to know? Leave us a comment below and we\u2019ll update the list (but please, nothing about her being a puppet of the Liberal Party or anything remotely associated with that topic).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: <\/em>Spot.PH<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>lenirobredo.com<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>CNN Philippines<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Rappler<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While everyone knows exactly who the new president is, not everyone is privy to who our vice president, Leni Robredo, is apart from being a member of the Liberal Party, which former president Benigno Aquino III was also a member of. Here are a few things that you should know about the Philippines’ new vice president:   THE SECOND MEETING. Vice President Leni Robredo (left) is seen meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte during a courtesy call by the latter. Photo courtesy of lenirobredo.com   1. She was a human rights lawyer before being a congresswoman. She used to work for the Sentro ng Alternatibong Lingap Panligal (SALIGAN), a national alternative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-story"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/07\/Courtesy-call-e1467971535749.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6675,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions\/6675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}