However she lost the seat, after Ricardo Quintos won an election protest against her on August 29, 2000.

She was forced to concede the seat to Quintos who represented the province until the 11th Congress' dissolution in 2001.

[2] In her first stint as a congresswoman, she was involved in crafting a law that which led to the pilot testing of a computerized election system in 1998 in select provinces which in turn paved way for the automated national elections in 2010.

[4] As deputy speaker, she supervised the lower house's Social Services Cluster which composed of twelve standing committees in the 14th Congress at that time.

[6] She was married to Jose Tapales Villarosa, who himself was also a member in the House of Representative and governor of Occidental Mindoro.