Leni Robredo ‘running scared’ despite surge in survey

Liberal Party Vice Presidential bet Leni Robredo. File photo

DAGUPAN CITY—-Despite receiving the highest boost in ranking from the latest survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS), Liberal Party vice presidential candidate Leni Robredo said she was still “running scared.”

“I am always bothered. I am running scared in this campaign,” Robredo said in her visit to Pangasinan where she graced the opening of the First Children Summit on Health on Tuesday.

In the SWS survey conducted from Dec. 12 to 14, Robredo gained 7 percent, rising to 19 percent from the previous survey where she got 12 percent. She is now tied with Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at second place.

Robredo, the third district representative of Camarines Sur, said she entered the vice presidential race knowing that she was the least popular among the candidates.

“My rivals are all senators, I’m the only local representative. I need to exert extra effort to be known,” she said in Filipino.

Robredo said she and her husband, the late Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo, have not fought easy battles to win elections. “Our political campaigns were like this current race, very difficult. We were always the underdogs, but that is why we persevere,” she said.

Her seven-point surge was the highest among the vice presidential bets. Marcos slipped from 24 percent to 19 percent while Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano dropped from 21 percent to 17 percent. Sen. Francis Escudero kept his lead with 30 percent.  Sen. Gregorio Honasan got 8 percent. Johanne Margarette Macob, Inquirer Northern Luzon