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NAGA CITY — Former Vice President Leni Robredo has been proclaimed mayor of her hometown in a landslide victory of greater than 84,000 votes, changing into the primary girl to carry the place.
Robredo was formally proclaimed on the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Naga Metropolis throughout a ceremony at 10 a.m. Tuesday. She was accompanied by her three daughters.
Her operating mate, former Camarines Sur Consultant Gabriel Bordado Jr., was additionally proclaimed vice mayor after securing greater than 45,000 votes, defeating rivals Tato Mendoza (40,282 votes), Benjamin Villafuerte (1,452), and Topi Fortuna (729).
Most candidates from Robredo’s “Workforce Naga” slate additionally gained seats within the midterm elections, with solely two members failing to make it.
Robredo, a lawyer, served as Camarines Sur’s third district consultant from 2013 to 2016 earlier than being elected because the nation’s 14th vp—solely the second girl to carry the put up—from 2016 to 2022. She ran for president in 2022 however misplaced to now-President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Earlier than getting into politics, she was often known as the spouse of the late Jesse Robredo, who served as mayor of Naga from 1988 to 1998 and once more from 2001 to 2010. He later grew to become secretary of the Division of the Inside and Native Authorities, a put up he held till his dying in a 2012 airplane crash off the coast of Masbate Metropolis.
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