MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Cynthia Villar, whose family's business empire ranges from retail to property, kept her spot as the richest member of the upper chamber last year while Sen. Leila de Lima retained hers as the poorest, according to their wealth declarations.
This is based on the Senate's updated summary of its members' statements of assets liabilities and net worth as of December 2019 which was obtained by News5 on Thursday.
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Senator Cynthia Villar remains the richest senator with a total net worth of more than P3.8-billion. Senator Leila de Lima has the lowest net worth at P8-million. | via @maeannelosbanos/@News5PH pic.twitter.com/aQbHWtR48x— Philstar.com (@PhilstarNews) October 29, 2020
Villar, who topped the Senate race in 2019, declared a net worth of over P3.81 billion. Her husband, former Sen. Manuel Villar, recently topped Forbes' list of richest Filipinos with a net worth of $5.6 billion as of April.
Sen. Manny Pacquiao, boxing icon-turned-politician placed second on the list with a declared net worth of P3.17 billion. Meanwhile, opposition Sens. De Lima and Risa Hontiveros ranked last and second to the last on the list, with the detained senator declaring a comparatively meager net worth of P8 million and with Hontiveros posting double that.
Here is a list of senators' declared net worth as of December 2019: