Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – Senator Risa Hontiveros on Friday, October 1, has filed her certificate for candidacy (COC) for re-election in the upcoming 2022 elections.
Hontiveros, currently the chairperson of the Senate Panel on Women, Children, and Family relations, is a part of the opposition is backed up by the Liberal Party.
The once two-term Akbayan Party-list representative before entering the Senate, has had two failed attempts before winning a Senate seat back in 2016.
Before entering Politics, the cum laude from Ateneo De Manila University was a broadcast journalist, a peace advocate and a community organizer. TNF