By NAGA CITY, Camarines Sur—It was a scorching Saturday midmorning when President Marcos met Leni Robredo in person for the second time since she defeated him for the vice presidency in 2016. However, he made sure that politics would be barely visible.
Both officials dismissed speculation that the President’s trip was anything more than an inspection of a new program to control flooding in the Bicol River Basin—even as it came close on the heels of Vice President Sara Duterte’s announcement that she was running for president in 2028.
