“When my mom was at her lowest in the senatorial surveys at number 28, no one was coming to support her, when only our grandma Susan Roces was her biggest financial supporter and I was her first campaign staff, Chiz already supported our mom. That’s why Chiz is so important. He lent his machinery. He was the one who brought her to the provinces when no one else did; that says something about the character of Chiz.”

Filipino politician and lawyer

Francis Joseph “Chiz” Guevara Escudero is a Filipino politician and lawyer. He has served as a senator of the Philippines since 2022, after an earlier Senate term from 2007 to 2019, and he was the 31st president of the Senate from 2024 to 2025. A member of the Nationalist People's Coalition, Escudero has been a visible figure in Philippine national politics for many years. He ran for vice president in 2016 as Grace Poe’s running mate, but did not win.