Leni Robredo

"Leni Robredo, nope... not Leni Loud, but LENI ROBREDO... Leni Robredo just came here to help us these Coalition of the Red Star nutcases that get into our way. Now we're talkin' about this."

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Assassin Phantom

Maria Leonor "Leni" Gerona Robredo (born Maria Leonor Santo Tomas Gerona) is a Filipino lawyer and social activist who is the 14th and current Vice President of the Philippines. Running under the Liberal Party, Robredo won the vice-presidency contest in the May 9, 2016 election, as confirmed and proclaimed by the official Congressional count of May 25–27, with 14,418,817 votes (35.11% of the votes), narrowly defeating Senator Bongbong Marcos by 263,473 votes amid controversy. She is the second woman to serve as Vice President after Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and the first Vice President from Bicol.

Robredo first came to public attention in 2012 after the death of her husband, Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo, in the 2012 Philippine Piper Seneca Crash off the coast of Masbate Island. Prior to the accident, her involvement in public life was as a lawyer and social activist. After this, she ran in the 2013 general election and won as the representative of Camarines Sur's Third District to the Philippine House of Representatives for the 16th Congress, a post she held until her inauguration as Vice President on June 30, 2016.​​​​​