Sonia Malasarte Roco was born on 20 July 1944 and is the widow of Filipino senator and presidential candidate Raul Roco.
17 Facts About Sonia Roco
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Sonia Roco ran for the Senate in the 2007 Philippine Midterm Elections under her late husband's party, Aksyon Demokratiko, which is allied with the broad opposition coalition called Genuine Opposition.
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Sonia Roco joined the coalition after JV Ejercito, son of deposed President Joseph Estrada, pulled out as an opposition candidate at his father's behest.
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Sonia Roco was born to then-Congressman Pablo Malasarte of Bilar and homemaker Petra Cubillo of Calape, Bohol.
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Sonia Roco holds a Bachelor of Science in Education degree from Saint Joseph's College, Quezon City, a Master of Arts in Communication Arts and a Master of Arts in Social Psychology from Ateneo de Manila University.
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Sonia Roco has taken courses at the Child Development Center of the University of the Philippines Diliman.
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Sonia Roco established "Live and Learn Pre-school," a kindergarten school in Katipunan, Quezon City.
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Sonia Roco ran in the 2007 Philippine general election, coming in 17th place, with 8,457,710 votes.
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Sonia Roco ran again in the senatorial lineup of the Liberal Party in the 2010 elections.
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Sonia Roco took 18th place on the electoral result with 6,290,925 votes.
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In both 1998 and 2004 Philippine presidential campaign, Sonia Roco actively campaigned for her husband and was described by local media as very well-prepared to be a First Lady of the Philippines.
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Sonia Roco is active in educational, social, cultural, and environmental causes.
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Sonia Roco co-founded Saint Michael's Hospice in 1996 to help the poor and terminally ill.
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Sonia Roco maintains active relations with the Student Catholic Action Leadership Foundation, an organization which strives to revive the SCA among the contemporary Filipino youth.
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Sonia Roco is the executive director of Student Catholic Action of the Philippines.
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Dr Patricia Licuanan and Sonia Roco set up the Metro Manila Community Orchestra.
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Since Sonia Roco studied Dramatics in the UK, she later enrolled in the writing class of Barbara Gonzalez, composing series of poems.