Senator Risa Hontiveros on Friday said Filipino women will ensure that the next administration will be better than President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration.
“Filipino women have endured and overcome more than his presidency, and we will help take it back for a more worthy administration,” Hontiveros said in a statement.
Hontiveros made the remark after the President discouraged his daughter, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, from running for president in the 2022 national elections saying the presidency is not for women.
“I have told Inday not to run kasi naaawa ako sa dadaanan niya na dinaanan ko (because I can’t bear to see her go through what I have gone through),” Duterte said.
“Hindi ito pambabae. Alam mo (This job is not for a woman. You know) the emotional setup of a woman and a man is totally different. Maging gago ka dito,” he said.
The Philippines have had two women presidents—Corazon Aquino, mother of former President Benigno Aquino III, and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Both women leaders took over the presidency after their predecessors—former presidents Ferdinand Marcos and Joseph Estrada—were ousted from power, respectively.