- Vice presidential candidate Leni Robredo recalls with fondness the sweet gestures done by her late husband on Valentine’s Day
- She said Jesse gives her ‘leftover’ roses on heart’s day
- The roses are the leftovers which Jesse regularly gives to all female employees when he was still Naga City mayor
She’s past her golden age, but Liberal Party vice presidential candidate Leni Robredo still proves to be a ‘head-turner’ with her simple yet alluring beauty.
However, the running mate of LP standard-bearer Mar Roxas has no intention of replacing Jesse Robredo in her heart, she said on the eve of Valentine’s Day, an article written by DJ Yap on Philippine Daily Inquirer disclosed.
“In our 25 years together, he never gave me a headache,” she said of her late husband. “If I look for a [new] love life, he might just give me a headache. So I’d rather not,” Leni was quoted saying.
Recalling the sweet gestures of her late husband, the Camarines Sur representative said she will miss the “leftover” roses Jesse used to give her on Valentine’s Day.
Those roses, she revealed, were the remainder of what Jesse regularly gave the female employees every February 14 at the Naga City Hall; where he served as mayor for 10 years.
“No matter how busy he was at work, he would find the time to buy and give out the flowers to the employees. He would give the remainder to me,” Leni recalled with fondness; adding that this would be her third Valentine’s Day without her beloved Jesse.
The hardworking interior secretary died in a plane crash in August 2012. He left behind his wife and their three lovely daughters—Aika, Tricia and Jillian.
Although Leni, who is a lawyer and economics graduate, is known for being a private person, she plunged into a political career after her husband’s death to answer the public clamor for her to run in Camarines Sur’s third district.
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