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Leviste preparing for the worst, tells others to expose his files if something bad happens

Published Dec 24, 2025 11:19 pm

At A Glance

  • Anti-infrastructure corruption crusader Batangas 1st district Rep. Leandro Legarda Leviste has instructed several people to expose his files in the event that "something" happens to him.
Batangas 1st district Rep. Leandro Legarda Leviste (Contributed photo)
Batangas 1st district Rep. Leandro Legarda Leviste (Contributed photo)


Anti-infrastructure corruption crusader Batangas 1st district Rep. Leandro Legarda Leviste has instructed several people to expose his files in the event that "something" happens to him.
Leviste made this revelation on Christmas eve, Wednesday, Dec. 24, just hours after releasing to the public a 19-page list of Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) project proponents under the P6.326-trillion national budget for 2025.
While the list didn't specify the congressmen-proponents' insertions--if any--it indicates the millions worth of "allocable" amounts per House member. He says these are annual earmarked amounts that a district congressman may allocate.
"Merry Christmas po sa inyong lahat! Nag-break muna tayo sa pagbahagi ng mga files upang mag-noche buena kasama ang aking ina at ang aming Nanay Fely. Kahit na Pasko, napag-usapan pa rin namin ang trabaho...," Leviste wrote in a Facebook post Wednesday night.
(Merry Christmas to all of you! We’re taking a break from sharing files to have Noche Buena with my mother and our Nanay Fely. Even though it’s Christmas, we still talked about work...)
The 32-year-old solon then shared what he told his mother, Senator Loren Legarda.
"Pinaalala ko sa aking ina ang aking bilin sa iba't ibang mga tao: kung may mangyari sa akin, isapubliko ang lahat ng files na iniwan ko at tapusin ang ating sinimulang pagbabahagi ng impormasyon. Maligayang Pasko po sa ating lahat! ????????" said Leviste.
(I reminded my mother of my instruction to various people: if anything happens to me, make public all the files I left behind and finish the information-sharing we started. Merry Christmas to all of us! ????????)
The neophyte cognressman didn't identify the people that he gave his grim instructions to.
Former DPWH undersecretary Maria Catalina Cabral, the person who gave the proponents list to Leviste, reportedly died last Dec. 18 after falling into a ravine in Benguet. Authorities are currently looking into whether or not there was foul play in the incident.
In a recent podcast with the Manila Bulletin, Leviste confirmed that he beefed up his security detail.
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