Liberal Party spokesperson Leila de Lima reveals some of the opposition’s Senate bets in the 2025 midterm elections: former senators Kiko Pangilinan and Bam Aquino and human rights lawyer Chel Diokno.
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00:00 Liberal Party spokesperson Laila de Lima reveals some of the opposition's Senate bets in the 2025 midterm elections.
00:08 In a message to Rappler Thursday, February 22, de Lima says the LP will field former Senators Kiko Pangilinan and Bamakino and human rights lawyer Chell Giocno as "opposition candidates."
00:21 De Lima adds the party will try to convince former Vice President Lenny Robredo to run for senator.
00:27 Robredo has been mum about her political plans amid her supporters' clamor for her to run for the Senate.
00:33 In the 2022 election, Senator Rizonte Veras was the lone opposition bet to secure a seat in the Senate.
00:39 The LP was the ruling party during the administration of late President Noy Noy Aquino from 2010 to 2016.
00:46 Many of its members joined other political parties.
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