Kiko Pangilinan Reveals 2025 Senate Run was Final Shot at Reentering Gov’t: “We’re tired of losing”

Presumptive Sen. Kiko Pangilinan Speaks on Plan over 2025 Senatorial Bid

KIKO PANGILINAN – The presumptive Senator revealed that his 2025 Senate run was his final shot at reentering the government for public service.

The 2022 tandem of former Vice Pres. Leni Robredo and former Sen. Pangilinan was phenomenal and left a mark in the Philippine history. However, while the tandem gathered millions of people and drove volunteer campaigning by countless Filipinos, they did not emerge victorious on the ballots.

Prior to it, former Sen. Kiko Pangilinan also served as the campaign manager of the senatorial slate Otso Diretso in 2019. He was the president of the Liberal Party then. However, the senate slate was wiped out amid the popularity of then Pres. Rodrigo Roa Duterte.

Pangilinan resigned from being the president of the Liberal Party. Amid being away from the political scene since 2022 when the Leni-Kiko tandem lost, he remained committed in his advocacy for the agriculture field.

Recently, in the 2025 Elections, former Sen. Kiko Pangilinan filed his senatorial candidacy. Former Vice Pres. Leni Robredo helped campaign for Pangilinan as well as former Sen. Bam Aquino. Thus, the former Vice President is one of those who are very happy over their current standing in the 2025 Senatorial Election results.

Former Vice Pres. Robredo endorsed Aquino and Pangilinan for senator and even personally joined some of the campaign sorties of the two senatorial candidates. They returned to Iloilo and got the massive support of the Ilonggos. The people in Naga, the bailiwick of the former Vice President, also had them as their #1 and #2 senatorial candidates.

Former Vice Pres. Leni Robredo was elected mayor in Naga and she is the first female mayor in the city. Former Senators Bam Aquino and Kiko Pangilinan are poised to win as senators with their current standing as the second and fifth senatorial candidates in the election results, respectively.

Based on a report on PhilStar, former Sen. Kiko Pangilinan revealed that his 2025 Senate run was his final shot in his pursuit to reenter the government for public service. According to him, if he will not win, they would just let the younger generation take the lead.

“We’re tired of losing. If we won’t win, let’s just let the younger generation run,” he said.

Former Sen. Kiko Pangilinan was intensely bashed during the campaign period. He was also out from the Top 12 in surveys. His “come-from-behind win” as former Vice Pres. Leni Robredo has described is a surprise for many people. For Megastar Sharon Cuneta, her husband Kiko Pangilinan’s election win is a “miracle”.