9. Empowering Filipinas
Aside from her numerous achievements in the academic and professional fields, Santiago was once a beauty title-holder as ROTC Corps Sponsor at the University of the Philippines twice. Indeed, a beautiful woman with brains to match is absolutely a lethal combination!
10. Zero political ad spending
Since all of her ads were paid for by the People’s Reform Party, Santiago had zero campaign expenses in 2016. With her rivals spending over P2 billion for television advertisements as early as 2015, the feisty senator is urging voters to consider the advertisement splurge of presidential aspirants prior to the campaign period as indicators of corruption.