Loren Legarda

Loren Regina Bautista Legarda is a Filipino environmentalist, journalist and politician, notable as the only female to top two senatorial elections 1998 and 2007. During the 2004 Philippine general election, she ran for the position of VicePresident as an Independent with Fernando Poe, Jr. as running mate and again during the 2010 Philippine presidential election, for the same position as a member of the Nationalist Peoples Coalition with Manny Villar. US embassy cables leaked by Wikileaks include her as one of the five most influential women in the Philippines.

Loren Legarda was born on January 28, 1960 in Malabon as Lorna Regina Bautista Legarda, the only daughter of Antonio Cabrera Legarda of San Pablo, Laguna, and Bessie Gella Bautista of Malabon. Her maternal grandfather was Jose P. Bautista, an editor of the preMartial Law newspaper, The Manila Times. As a teenager, she appeared as a print and television model.

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