Presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo on Monday, Jan. 31, said it was a missed opportunity that President Duterte did not see it fit to set aside their differences so that both of them could have worked together for the betterment of the country.

Despite repeated statements made by Duterte that were highly critical of the Vice President's capability to lead, the lone female presidential candidate for the 2022 elections stressed that she has no ill feelings against the Chief Executive

“Siguro kung may nararamdaman man ako ngayon, mas sayang. Mas sayang na kahit sana iba ‘yung pinanggalingan namin, kahit sana iba ‘yung paniniwala namin sa napakaraming bagay (If I am feeling anything now, it’s more of what a waste. What a waste that even if we are coming from different backgrounds, even if we have different views on a lot of things), from the very start iyong paniniwala ko talaga meron kaming pwedeng pagkasunduan (I believe that we can agree on some things),” Robredo said on “Ikaw Na Ba: The Presidential Interviews” on DZBB.

The Vice President lamented that she had a lot of plans when she was appointed head of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC).

Robredo recounted that she even told the President that she was happy their political differences had not become hindrances for them to work together.

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However, her Cabinet position was short lived as she was informally asked to resign from her post when she started criticizing the government’s war on drugs campaign.

She also accepted the challenged of the Chief Executive to co-chair the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD), but she was removed after only 18 days.

Asked if she thinks Duterte was referring to her when he revealed that there is one 2022 presidential candidate who “really cannot be a president,” Robredo said it could be her since the Chief Executive had made similar criticisms against her in the past.

But the aspiring president was quick to shrug it off, and insisted that her consistency of her public service record would speak for itself.

“Ako (Me), over the years napakita natin iyon (I showed that) as vice president. Pero kahit noong nasa Kongreso ako, kahit iyong wala pa ako sa Kongreso, pinakita ko kung nasaan ang puso ko, pinakita ko ano iyong kaya kong gawin (But even when I was in Congress, even when I was not in Congress yet, I showed where my heart is, I showed what I can do),” she said.

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“Brashness and aggression,” as well as gender, are not determinants of capacity and leadership, the lady official added.

The Vice President, however, dismissed the President’s allegation that one presidential candidate has vices.

Robredo noted her only vice is to clean their house.

“Hindi naman yata ako iyong pinatutungkulan (I am not the one being alluded to),” she stressed.

Duterte earlier alleged that one presidential candidate is a cocaine addict and that he has evaded authorities because he’s doing it aboard yachts and airplanes.