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VP Sara still undecided on who to support in 2025 polls

Published Jul 18, 2024 06:22 am

Admitting that both President Marcos and her father, former president Rodrigo Duterte, asked her support for the 2025 midterm campaign, Vice President Sara Duterte divulged that she has not yet decided on where to throw her support for next year’s polls.

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(From left) President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. and former president Rodrigo Duterte (Photo from the Presidential Communications Office)

In a media interview on Thursday, July 18, the Vice President said she’s still brainstorming about what course to take for the midterm elections.

“Kailangan ko muna kasing pag-isipam kung ano ‘yung direksyon ko sa midterm elections sa susunod na taon kaya hindi pa ako handa na sumagot sa kanilang dalawa kung anong gagawin for the midterm elections (I need to think about what direction to take for the midterm elections next year, so I am not yet ready to answer to them both what I would do for the midterm elections),” she told reporters.

Duterte recalled that in a meeting with Marcos before she resigned as DepEd chief, the President asked her to join and help the administration for its senatorial bets.

But the official told him that she won’t be joining the midterm elections for now.

Also in a chance encounter with her father, the Vice President shared the former president invited her “to campaign, help, and support” his senatorial slate under the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino (PDP) party.

“So, sinabi ko din sa kanya na hindi muna ako sasali sa midterm elections (So, I also told him that I will not join the midterm elections for now),” she said.

Meanwhile, she shrugged her father’s denial when she claimed he and her brothers—Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte and Davao 1st District Rep. Paolo Duterte—will be seeking Senate seats in 2025.

“That remains to be seen kasi sabi ko nga di ba, wala pa naman ‘yung filing of candidacy, so hindi natin alam kung sino ‘yung mga tatakbo for senators sa midterm elections (as I said, there’s no filing of candidacy yet, so we don’t know who will run as senators in the midterm elections),” Duterte said.

“At saka by my experience, up to the last minute nagbabago ang desisyon ng mga tao. Kaya hindi natin alam kung ano mangyayari bukas, iyan ‘yun lagi kong sinasabi (people’s decisions will change. So we don’t know what will happen tomorrow, that’s what I always say),” she added.

Duterte herself was a substitute candidate when she filed her Certificate of Candidacy (COC) for the vice presidency.

Her father, the former president, was also a substitute candidate for the 2016 presidential polls.

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