By the Sunday PostSenator Loren Legarda, a top presidential timber, representing the Nationalist People’s Alliance, breezed into town yesterday as part of her barnstorming tour throughout the country to feel the people’s pulse in relation to her future political plans.
While in this city, the lady senator touched base with Bohol’s top NPC stalwart City Mayor Dan Neri Lim. It was Lim who arranged a one-hour radio interview over Station DYTR where she guested in the mayor’s weekly program “Ang Mayor Sa Dakbayanâ€.
Although she was careful not to make a categorical declaration to answer point blank loaded questions about her presidential dream, Legarda just played it coy betraying her political plans in the process.
One thing that put her on the spot about her presidential aspiration was her virtual admission that she was a consistent survey top-notcher among presidentiables.
Asked if the template of the coming presidential election is all about change as what happened in the United States with the election of Barack Obama, the first Afro-American president, she cited the need for it.
Legarda said the call of the times is for change to take place coupled with hope.
Pressed to elaborate if she can be the epitome of change and hope for the country, the lady senator said it was possible because they are part of the political agenda.
During the same interview, Legarda talked at length her advocacy about the environment.
Citing her unfaltering crusade for the environment, the senator was recognized of her advocacy in the year 2000 when she was named one of the Global Leaders for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.
The topnotch senator was also at home with media colleagues in Bohol. She was a top rated broadcaster before she strayed into politics starting as senator.
Drawing from her vast experience as a journalist for 20 years, she commented on a pending Senate bill providing for the Right of Reply.
The bill authored by Senator Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. defines the parameters of the citizens of the right of reply from any derogatory imputation by media.
While the Senate is sharply divided by the Pimentel bill, the journalist in Legarda said while she totally agree with the import of the proposed law, it should not in any way compromised with her position on the basic freedom of speech and information as enshrined in the Bill of Rights.
In her two terms as senator, Legarda was widely known as having authored and sponsored vital pieces of legislation geared towards environmental protection, promotion on entrepreneurship, protection of the rights of women and children, overseas workers and domestic laborers, proving better health services to the public, social justice, national unity and inculcating the value of nationalism and love of country.
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