Barry Gutierrez reportedly said that VP Leni Robredo transferred her voter registration from Naga to Magarao.
On Friday, OVP spokesperson Barry Gutierrez reportedly said that Vice President Leni Robredo has transferred her voter registration from Naga to Magarao in Camarines Sur.
Based on a report on Rappler, Gutierrez clarified that Robredo has no decision on running for Camarines Sur governor yet as she’s actually back in Manila by October 1.
“Yes she did so, at the advice of her lawyers who wanted consistency in yung kanyang actual residence ngayon,” Gutierrez said.
However, Gutierrez said that Robredo had been very clear that insofar as the possibility of the gubernatorial run was concerned and that has to wait for a decision on whether or not to run for president in the upcoming 2022 elections.
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Last May, Robredo explained why she changed her residency from Naga City to Magarao in Camarines Sur.
According to her, she needed to move her residency from her hometown of Naga City to the nearby Barangay Carangcang in Magarao, Camarines Sur because of the properties left to them by her parents and not because of her political plans.
Based on a report on Manila Bulletin, when Leni’s mother died last year before the pandemic, that left her and her siblings some properties outside of Naga City.
However, those properties were very far from Naga and so she “overruled” her siblings and decided to build a family home in the nearby municipality of Magarao, which was just 8 kilometers from Naga City.
At that time, Robredo clarified that the move to Magarao wasn’t because she planned to run as governor of Camarines Sur and Naga residents can’t vote and run for a local post outside the city.
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Meanwhile, opposition coalition 1Sambayan on Thursday endorsed Robredo as its presidential candidate.
1Sambayan convenor Retired Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio believed that Robredo would “accept the challenge” and would run for president next year.
In a statement, Robredo on Thursday hinted that it would be challenging for her to decide if she would run for president in 2022 as a lot of responsibility fell on the sitting president.
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