Who is PNoy's new love interest?

Beautiful and kind.

This is how a co-worker at the Department of Interior and Local Government described attorney Mariness “Kim” Ledesma, 29, President Benigno S.C. Aquino’s reported new love interest.

“Maganda siya at mabait. Magaling makisama kahit mababa [lang ang katungkulan mo] at kahit hindi kayo close, expect mo na ngingitian ka niya,” Liza, an employee at DILG, told GMA News Online in a phone interview on Tuesday.

“Atty. Kim,” as her co-workers called Ledesma, is a member of the Liberal Party and currently works under DILG Undersecretary Rafael Antonio Santos.

“Crush ko nga siya kasi maganda siya e,” Liza added.

On Sunday, The Philippine Daily Inquirer in a column “Biz Buzz” named Ledesma as “the present apple of the President’s eye.”

The report noted that Ledesma graduated cum laude from the Ateneo de Davao University law school.

Quoting a source, the report said: “I hear they’re very serious about each other.”

GMA News Online tried to contact Ledesma but she was not immediately available for comment.

No comment

Sought for comment, DILG Secretary Mar Roxas told reporters: “I don’t discuss the President’s personal life. That’s his life.”

For his part, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said in a text message to GMA News Online, “I have no idea and we really don't comment on the President's personal life.” — BM, GMA News