Lutgardo Barbo
Lutgardo "Lutz" Boco Barbo is a lawyer and politician who served as governor of Eastern Samar from 1986 to 1998. He also served as the senate secretary of Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr. from 2000 to 2001 and his son Senator Koko Pimentel until 2016.
Barbo worked at a law firm in Quezon City beginning in the 1970s. He was detained and tortured by the military in 1980 during the martial law regime under President Ferdinand Marcos.
In 2022, he ran for Senator, in the slate of Manny Pacquiao with PDP-Laban. He got 48th overall, being elected as the vice-chairman for PDP-Laban shortly after the elections.
He was born on October 1, 1945, in Llorente, Eastern Samar. He was originally a part of the Quisumbing, Capers, Alcantara & Mosqueda Law Office, with the earliest report coming from 1979.
In 1980, Barbo was detained and tortured by the military during the martial law regime of Ferdinand Marcos after his name was found in the diary of his friend Victor Lovely.
Career
Governor and secretary
Following Marcos's removal from office, Lutgardo Barbo had served as the governor of Eastern Samar for four terms from 1986 to 1998. Since 2000, he was the senate secretary of Aquilino Pimentel Jr. On December 7, 2000, he was the case caller for the impeachment of Joseph Estrada out of 21 senator judges, 11 prosecutors, and three defense lawyers. Until 2016, Barbo was the secretary for the senator Koko Pimentel, and as a senate secretary until 2018.
2022 Senate run
He ran for the Senate of the Philippines, joining the slate of former senator and boxer Manny Pacquiao, with the political party PDP-Laban. 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.