DAVAO CITY – Saying she doesn’t believe in surveys, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte would rather get a feel of the people’s sentiments when it comes to her planned 2022 presidential bid.
Duterte admits she met with Governor Gwen Garcia recently in Cebu to ask permission for her camp to hold consultations in their province.
She said she wants to hear the thoughts of the people from the grassroots of having another Duterte to lead the country, and not just comments from her allies and friends, including her supporters organizing the “Run, Sara, Run” movement.
“I told my companions, my friends, that if we talk among ourselves, of course, I would expect you to say ‘Run, Inday Sara, Run’ because we are friends. What is most important is asking the people who are not our friends what are their thoughts about that,” Duterte told Davao City Disaster Radio DCDR 87.5 FM.
She said no initial consultation was conducted on her initial visit to Cebu last week but Duterte admitted that she met her supporters who were behind the group organizing the “Run, Sara, Run” movement to thank them for their support.
Duterte revealed that at the moment, her local party, the Hugpong Ng Pagbabago (HNP) is now in talks with political parties that include the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrat (Lakas-CMD) whose party president, Rep. Martin Romualdez, was once endorsed as a vice-presidential candidate by no less that President Duterte.