On of the most enjoyable moments that Vice President Leni Robredo remembers since winning her post in the May elections was the long slippery trek up Mt. Fridays and Saturdays are blocked off for the laylayan events where we go to the most far-flung areas,” Robredo said. When she was finally appointed to head the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), the work doubled almost overnight. Her tsinelas—both symbolic of her late husband’s grounded and mass-based leadership as well as a practical accoutrement of her no-frills laylayan trips—broke and left her wading through the muck on her bare feet. More than a month since being sworn into office, Robredo maintains the pace and stamina that saw her through a bruising campaign to win by a hairline over the only son of the late President Ferdinand Marcos.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 06, 2016 17:26 UTC