Ricarte Padilla | |
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Governor of Camarines Norte | |
Assumed office June 30, 2022 | |
Vice Governor | Joseph V. Ascutia |
Preceded by | Edgar Tallado |
Succeeded by | Dennis "Kuya Tol" Riel (acting,June 30,2025–July 2025) [1] Joseph V. Ascutia (acting) |
Mayor of Jose Panganiban,Camarines Norte | |
In office June 30,2010 –June 30,2019 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Ricarte Robledo Padilla June 1,1965 Jose Panganiban,Camarines Norte,Philippines |
Political party | PFP (2024–present) |
Other political affiliations | Aksyon Demokratiko (2021–2024) NUP (2018–2021) Liberal (2015–2018) PMP (2009–2015) |
Relations | Robin Padilla (half-brother) Rommel Padilla (half-brother) BB Gandanghari (half-brother) |
Parent(s) | Roy Padilla Sr. Carmelita Robledo |
Occupation | Politician |
Ricarte "Dong" Robledo Padilla (born June 1,1965) is a Filipino politician who currently serves as the Governor of Camarines Norte. He is the half-brother of Senator Robin Padilla and actors Rommel Padilla and BB Gandanghari. [2]
Ricarte Padilla was born in Jose Panganiban,Camarines Norte to Roy Padilla Sr.,a former Governor of Camarines Norte who was assassinated in 1988,and Carmelita Robledo. [3] He has 47 siblings, [4] including older brothers Restituto ("Resty",died 2002) and Ronaldo (died 1988), [5] [6] younger sister Rebecca, [4] and half-siblings Robin Padilla,Rommel Padilla,Royette Padilla,BB Gandanghari (formerly Rustom Padilla) and Casimero "Kuatro" Padilla. [7] [8] His grandfather was also a former Governor of Bulacan. [9] [2]
Padilla was the former mayor of Jose Panganiban,Camarines Norte before running for Vice Governor but losing with 117,952 votes. [2] [10] He filed an unsuccessful appeal to the Supreme Court against the result. [11] [12]
In 2022,Padilla was elected as Governor of Camarines Norte with 162,081 votes. [13] Padilla ousted the reelectionist incumbent Edgardo Tallado. [14]
On June 30,2025,Padilla was suspended for 18 months by the Office of the Ombudsman for allegedly appointing two indivudals to government posts without authorization. [1]
[...]laughs [Robin's] (slightly) older sister Rebecca Padilla[....] Officially there are 48 Padilla siblings[...]
[Resty] Padilla, head of Barangay Motherload [sic] in Jose Panganiban, Camarines Norte, suffered multiple fractures and later died at the Lourdes Hospital in Daet.
Ronaldo Padilla, mayor-elect of Jose Panganiban, Camarines Norte, and younger son of the slain Roy Padilla Sr., was killed in a vehicular accident along the national highway in Libmanan, Camarines Sur.