Loren Legarda ( 2007 Political TV Ad )

She ran for the Senate in 1998 under the Lakas-NUCD-UMDP Party. 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. 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. She was also instrumental in the release of fellow journalist Arlene dela Cruz from her abductors in Jolo, 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 benefitting 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.

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.

After her bid in the election, she filed an electoral protest before the Supreme Court sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal. 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. 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.

This is her 2007 political Ad using the tagline "Loren Legarda... No.1 sa Senado". Loren won with a large number of votes in the 2007 Philippine election

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[Opaw0614]

96% hindi %96 hahaha nag iisa ka lang na mang mang hahahaha kasi kung 96% bakit kulilat sya nong last election...Adik!! Plastic yan si Loren kahit tingnan nyo mag salita.

[ejma05]

@apascual99

kung yan lang nman ang nkkita mo on her e hndi n kta papatulan pa. yes, she's what all you have said. but then, is this what we all need for our country right now? an environmentalst, a women's rights advcate? i guess di pa spat ang katulad nya to go on a higher level. sa senado n nga lang e di nya mapanindigan ang kanyang sarili, as vp p kya? ang balimbing ay walang mggawang tama. bka maipagpalit nya ang isang karpat-dpat n desisyon pra s byan in xchange of her salvation. think!

[apascual99]

@Blavat666

ako naniniwala! at kung palipat-lipat man cya ng kampo... e ano naman? kung hindi na cya naniniwala sa isang partido e she has the right na humanap ng kampo na sa magiging mas kampante cya at makakapagtrabaho ng maayos. ang mahalaga e yung makapaglingkod ng maayos sa mga pinoy.

at saka Blavat666... pinoy ka din naman di ba? so lahat ng panlalait mo sa lahi natin e balik din lahat sa iyo.

[apascual99]

@ejma05

so sino naman ang sa tingin mo e karapat-dapat iboto? enlighten us so we can vote wisely. :)

kasi ako e si loren ang iboboto ko. pro-women and pro-nature! and galing cya sa isang simpleng pamilya so i know she will be able to relate well sa common problems ng mga pinoy. besides, other candidates come from too rich and too powerful families... and gusto pa nilang maupo? naman yan! tama na! napaghahalatang sobrang power hungry naman yung iba.

[ejma05]

polititcal prostitutes have no space for our gov't. ang dami nang mga wild political creatures sa gobyerno at gusto pa nya ulit maki-join. naku, she doesn't deserve any vote from us citizens. walang isang salita, walang delikadesa. oo nga at marunong pero hindi alam gumamit ng common sense.

[chardnj]

@Blavat666,,,kung ayaw mo kay LOREN LEGARDA..sayo nayun.pero tawagan mo ang mga kababayan natin na %96 sa kanila..NA MANG MANG ..hindi na tama yan...ako na bubugbug sayo tarantado ka...

[19raymond70]

WHAT Happened to the BALADYAY PYRAMID SCUM?????

[19raymond70]

Sen. Loren My question po ako.!!! .. Ano na nangyari sa Kaso ng THE BALADYAY PYRAMID SCUM??? NABAON na ba sa LIMUT???

[19raymond70]

TAMA 100% or even Higher 1000%

[19raymond70]

Sang ayon ako sa iyo 200% or 1000%