Proud To Be Pinoy: Princess Senator Loren Legarda in 2010 May Election

Source: Loren Legarda Official Website

As a Senator, Legarda is the only woman in history who has topped the Senate race twice, once in 1998 with over 15 million votes and in 2007 with over 18 million votes.

Dont't you know, she is highly regarded by the Muslim population in the Philippines and the Maranao Sultanate League bestowed on her the title of "Bai Alabi," or "Princess."

Lorna Regina Bautista Legarda (born January 28, 1960), better known as Loren Legarda, is a Filipino broadcast journalist and politician. In the 2004 Philippines general election, she ran for the position of Vice-President as the running mate of Fernando Poe, Jr. As of 2007, she is serving her second term as an incumbent senator in the Philippines. As a journalist, she had received the national honor of the Ten Outstanding Young Men and Women (TOYM) award and for her humanitarian and environmental work she was named one of the Global Leaders for tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and a United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) laureate included in the Global 500 Roll of Honour in 2001. In 2004, she became an Environment Awardee of the Priyadarshni Academy in Mumbai, India.

In 2008 Loren was appointed as UNISDR Asia Pacific Regional Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation. She recently participated in the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction, BBC World Debate and Forum on the Human Impact of Climate Change in Geneva, Switzerland.

You may visit her in Facebook.com

Sourced: Loren Legarda- First Account

Sourced: Loren Legarda- Second Account

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