Lutgardo "Lutz" Boco Barbo is a politician and former governor of

Eastern Samar Eastern Samar ( Waray-Waray: ''Sinirangan Samar''; ), officially the Province of Eastern Samar, is a province in the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. Its capital is the city of Borongan, which is the most populous. Eastern Samar ...

. He was originally a lawyer in the Mosqueda Law Office, before becoming the senate secretary of senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr. since 2000 and being the secretary of senator

Koko Pimentel Aquilino Martin "Koko" de la Llana Pimentel III (; born January 20, 1964) is a Filipino politician and lawyer who has served as a senator of the Philippines since 2011. He has served as Senate minority leader since 2022 and previously served a ...

until 2016. In 2022, he ran for Senator, in the slate of

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with

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. He got 48th overall, being elected as the vice-chairman for PDP-Laban shortly after the elections.

Early life and early career

He was born on October 1, 1945, in Llorente, Eastern Samar (then part of undivided

Samar Samar ( ) is the third-largest and seventh-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total population of 1,909,537 as of the 2020 census. It is located in the eastern Visayas, which are in the central Philippines. The island is divided in ...

). He was originally a part of the Mosqueda Law Office, with the earliest report coming from 1979.

Career

Governor and secretary

Lutgardo Barbo was the governor of Eastern Samar for four terms from 1986 to 1998. Since 2000, he was the senate secretary of

Aquilino Pimentel Jr Aquilino Quilinging Pimentel Jr. (, December 11, 1933 – October 20, 2019), commonly known as Nene Pimentel, was a Filipino politician and human rights lawyer who was one of the leading political opposition leaders during the regime of Ferdin ...

. On December 7, 2000, he was the case caller for the impeachment of

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out of 21 senator judges, 11 prosecutors, and three defense lawyers. Until 2016, Barbo was the secretary for the senator

, and as a senate secretary until 2018.

2022 Senate run

He ran for the

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, joining the slate of former senator and boxer

, with the political party

. He ended up getting 48th overall, with 749,472 votes, roughly 1.35% of the overall votes. After the election, in August 2022, Barbo was elected as the vice-chairman for the Pacquiao-Pimentel Faction of the PDP-Laban party.

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