Luis Raymund Villafuerte

He is into running, biking, swimming, and wakeboarding. He started running 10k distances in 2009. He also ran 21k in the 70.3 Ironman run in Phuket, Thailand.

He also learned wakeboarding from his son and current CamSur Governor Miguel Luis “Migz” Villafuerte.

LRay became the Camarines Sur governor in 2004 and served until 2013, following the footsteps of his father, who was governor from 1986 to 1992 and 1995 to 2004. LRay's grandfather, Mariano Villafuerte Sr., was also governor of CamSur from 1942 to 1943 during the Japanese Occupation. LRay's best accomplishment as a Governor was making Camarines Sur a first-class province. In 2010, CamSur became the number one tourist destination in the country with more than 2 million tourist visits. He also turned CamSur from the 39th poorest province in the Philippines to the 10th richest in 2009.

LRay paved the way for the development of the Caramoan Peninsula, now widely known as Caramoan Islands, which has hosted numerous editions of the popular reality show Survivor.

LRay also led the establishment of the CamSur Watersports Complex.

LRay's programs for tourism has helped him provide free education, broader medical services, agriculture programs, and livelihood programs, among others, to the Camarinenses.

In 2011, LRay also pioneered the El Verde Movement, CamSur's program for making a greener environment. The program employed a partnership package with different stakeholders, allowing the people to make a living out of planting trees. The Food-for-Tree Package allowed families to plant, maintain, and take care of trees through a food-for-work scheme. The Building Communi-Trees project allows corporate sponsors to invest and pledge a donation that will correspond to the number of trees they wish to be planted. The Back Tree School program is a sponsorship program offered to organizations that can sponsor an out-of-school youth to go back to school by planting trees.

Through these schemes, the El Verde Movement managed to plant 12.7 million trees in 35 municipalities by the end of 2012. It also bagged two Guinness World Records; for planting 64,096 trees in 15 minutes in the municipality of Siruma, and for planting 1 million mangrove propagules in just one hour. When LRay passed the reign to his son Migz, the current CamSur governor continued the program, aiming to plant 40 million trees by the year 2020. Most recently, LRay led the establishment of the CamSur Information Technology Park, located in the heart of the Provincial Complex. LRay envisioned the CSITP to be the province's information technology, information, and economic capital.

Located within the park is the CamSur Animation Studio, the first LGU-run digital center in the Philippines. CamSur Animation Studio was established in 2006 by the Provincial Government of Camarines Sur headed by LRay.

One of the biggest issues LRay faced during his term as governor was the call of CamSur politicians, including his own father, to divide the province into two provinces to create Nueva Camarines. LRay sternly opposed the rally, saying that it would be better and more convenient to run CamSur as one province. LRay also noted that the creation of another province would cost too much money to the national government. Today, CamSur stands as a single, wealthy province.

LRay is serving his first term as representative of the second district of Camarines Sur in Congress, beating Assuncion Arseño in the 2016 elections. Although considered a neophyte legislator, Congressman LRay has already filed close to a hundred bills as of writing – a strong display of commitment to his constituents and the public. Through legislation, he seeks to develop policies relating to the environment, education, information technology, and health, among others.

On his first day at work, he filed three revolutionary bills: (1) An act establishing e-government (House Bill No. 262), (2) An act integrating bicycle lanes in the Philippine transport system (House Bill No. 263), and (3) An act using digital technology in the public education system (House Bill No. 264).

He has also filed bills that aim to convert roads into national roads in the province of CamSur to accelerate the province’s development and increase economic activity within the province. He has also filed bills to convert several secondary schools in the province into national high schools to better provide for the needs of the students.

Congressman LRay spearheads the 17th Congress Neophytes Fellowship, a first-of-its-kind, non-partisan monthly gathering of first-term representatives designed to strengthen the camaraderie among the 104 neophytes in the 298-member chamber.

LRay is also the Vice-President of the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Local Government, and the Committee on National Defense and Security, and a Member of the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on Tourism. He is also a Member for the Majority on the Committee on Agriculture and Food, the Committee on Aquaculture and Fisheries Resources, the Committee on Banks and Financial Intermediaries, the Committee of Economic Affairs, the Committee on Information and Communications Technology, the Committee on Legislative Franchises, and the Committee on Ways and Means.. He is one of the famous 70 congressman who voted against the renewal of the ABS-CBN Franchise.

During the 2020 House leadership crisis, Villafuerte supported House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano's refusal to step down. After Lord Allan Velasco was elected as the new speaker, Villafuerte was ousted from being a deputy speaker on October 14 and was replaced by Mikee Romero, a Velasco ally who was removed as a deputy speaker two weeks prior by Cayetano's side. In a statement, Villafuerte announced that he will continue to support President Rodrigo Duterte's legislative agenda, and added "if the intention of removing me was to intimidate all those who remain loyal to former Speaker Cayetano, then they have miscalculated badly." He also accused the new leadership of "rejecting" the Cayetano faction's "offers of cooperation."[2][3]