Actress Claudine Barretto is planning to run for a public post in the 2022 elections.
Barretto has yet to announce her official plans in the upcoming elections, a poster of her together with potential candidates have been shared in different Olongapo City related pages.
Barretto intends to run for a councilor seat under the ticket of talent manager Arnold Vegafria who is running for the mayoral post.
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Apart from Barretto, Nash Aguas, Ejay Falcon, and Arjo Atayde are among celebrities wanting to make the job from showbiz to politics.
The 42-year-old Barretto is a screen veteran who started her career in 1992.
Dubbed local showbiz’s “Optimum Star,” she was the lead star of successive ABS-CBN soap operas in the ‘90s and early 2000s.
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Barretto became the common topic in showbiz headlines over her feud with her sisters Gretchen and Marjorie.
She was also the former wife of actor Raymart Santiago. (TDT)
