Leni Robredo

Maria Leonor "Leni" Gerona Robredo (born Maria Leonor Santo Tomas Gerona; April 23, 1965)[1][2] is a
Filipina lawyer and social activist who is the 14th and incumbent vice president of the Philippines.
Running under the Liberal Party, Robredo won the vice-presidential contest in the May 9, 2016 election
as confirmed and proclaimed by the official congressional count of May 25–27,[3] with 14,418,817 votes
(35.11% of the votes), narrowly defeating Senator Bongbong Marcos by 263,473 votes.[4] A report
released by the Presidential Electoral Tribunal further widened her lead to 278,566 over Senator
Marcos.[5] She is the second woman to serve as vice president after Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and the
first vice president from Bicol Region.

Robredo first came to public attention in 2012 after the death of her husband, Interior Secretary Jesse
Robredo, in the 2012 Philippine Piper Seneca crash off the coast of Masbate Island. After this, she ran in
the 2013 general election and won as the representative of Camarines Sur's Third District to the
Philippine House of Representatives for the 16th Congress, a post she held until her inauguration as vice
president on June 30, 2016.