Geraldine "Jade" Buray Ecleo (born October 5, 1970) is a

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politician and part-time actress/singer. Ecleo served as the first governor of the

Philippine The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

province of

Dinagat Islands Dinagat Islands ( Cebuano: ''Mga Pulo sa Dinagat''; Surigaonon: ''Mga Puyo nan Dinagat''; Kabalian: ''Mga Puyo san Dinagat''; Waray: ''Mga Purô han Dinagat''; Filipino: ''Mga Islang Dinagat''), officially the Province of Dinagat Islands, is ...

when it was established in 2006. She served as governor from July 1, 2007, until 2010 and was succeeded by her mother, Glenda B. Ecleo. Ecleo served as Vice-Governor to her mother from July 1, 2010, until 2013 and was defeated in the 2013 elections for the governor post by her mother, who was re-elected for a second term. In the 2016 general elections, she ran for a congressional seat to represent the lone district of Dinagat Islands but was defeated by the incumbent congresswoman,

Kaka Bag-ao Arlene "Kaka" Javellana Bag-ao (born July 3, 1969) is a Filipino human rights lawyer and agrarian reform advocate who served as Governor of the Dinagat Islands from 2019 to 2022. Bag-ao additionally served as the representative for the lone dis ...

. Ecleo is the daughter of

Ruben Ecleo Ruben Edera Ecleo Sr. (December 9, 1934 – December 20, 1987) was a Filipino people, Filipino religious leader who founded the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association in 1965, and the mayor of the municipality of Dinagat, Dinagat I ...

, founder of the

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, and the sister of Gwendolyn Ecleo and controversial religious politician

Ruben Ecleo Jr Ruben Buray Ecleo Jr. (April 16, 1960 – May 13, 2021) was a former Filipino politician and religious figure who was the leader of the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association who was convicted and imprisoned for parricide and graft and ...

. In 2022, Ecleo ran under the

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for Dinagat Islands representative but lost to her brother Alan. This 2025 elections, Ecleo is running for Vice Governor of Dinagat Islands under the

Partido Federal ng Pilipinas The Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP; ) is a national political party in the Philippines. It is chaired by Bongbong Marcos, president of the Philippines, who won in the 2022 election. During the run-up to the 2022 general election, the UniTea ...

against her brother Benglen.

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Living people 1970 births Governors of the Dinagat Islands People from Dinagat Islands Women provincial governors of the Philippines Geraldine {{Philippines-politician-stub