Legarda extends medical leave until October 9

LEGISLATOR. Senator Loren Legarda speaks during the plenary session on May 12, 2026.

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Senator Loren Legarda left the country with her son, Batangas 1st District Representative Leandro Leviste, on August 2

MANILA, Philippines — Senator Loren Legarda has again extended her medical leave, this time until October 9, Senate Secretary Renato Bantug Jr. confirmed.

Bantug said that the senator filed for medical leave from September 21 to 23, September 28 to October 2, and October 5 to 9.

This is the latest medical leave filed by Legarda, who first left the country with her son, Batangas 1st District Representative Leandro Leviste, on August 2. This was days after plunder and graft complaints were announced against them by the Office of the Ombudsman over the latter’s solar energy projects. 

Legarda first filed for medical leave from August 3 to 5, and has been extending it since then.

The senator previously confirmed that she had filed for medical leave with the Senate and asked the public “not to draw unwarranted conclusions from my travel or link it to the recent false and baseless allegations, which undeservedly besmirch a reputation that I have built over decades of public service.”

Legarda and three other senators — Jinggoy Estrada and Rodante Marcoleta who are detained over plunder charges, and Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa who is in hiding over an International Criminal Court warrant of arrest — have stopped receiving salaries as they remain absent from plenary sessions of the Senate and the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. – Rappler.com