Whatever President Marcos will report in his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 28, Vice President Sara Duterte said these meant nothing if they cannot reach the communities.

The Vice President pictured Marcos’ SONA, which she will skip, describing how his allies would clap at his every word despite such promises failing to uplift the lives of Filipinos.

“‘Yung mga kasamahan niya doon magpapalakpakan sa lahat ng sinasabi niya na hindi naman natin nararamdaman doon sa ating mga barangay, doon sa ating mga tahanan (His allies there will clap at whatever he’s saying that don’t trickle down to the barangay, to our homes),” she said during the “Free Duterte Rally” in South Korea on Sunday, July 27.

“Kasi kahit ano pa man ang sabihin nila, ‘yung mga picture nila, ‘yung mga numbers nila, mga sulat nila, hindi natin nakikita sa ating mga komunidad (No matter what they say, what the pictures, letters, and numbers show, we don’t feel it in our communities),” she added.

Duterte lamented how most Filipinos are already in debt for trying to make ends meet and worry about the futures of their children.

“We deserve better,” the official stressed.

While the crowd of Duterte supporters chant “Duterte! Duterte! Duterte,” the Vice President reminded them that uplifting their lives and fixing a broken system back home are not the work of one person.

“Trabaho ito ng lahat ng Pilipino. Lahat kayo dapat may pakialam sa kung anong nangyayari sa ating bayan. Dahil lahat tayo, lahat kayo may anak (This is a job for all Filipinos. You should all be concerned about what’s happening to our country. Because all of us here, we have children),” she said.

“Ayaw natin na ang ating mga anak ay tulad ng pinagdadaanan natin, nabibwisit sa araw-araw na pangit na kalagayan ng ating bansa. Ayaw natin na ganun ang kanilang kinabukasan (We don’t like our kids to suffer from what we’re going through, where they are angered by what they see in our country every day. We don’t like their futures to be like that),” she added.

Instead, the Vice President shared her dreams wherein Filipinos don’t have to worry about their salaries, food, house rent, and utility fees.

Duterte is scheduled to fly back to Manila on July 28, the same day as the President’s SONA.

This was after being in The Hague, Netherlands since July 5 to visit her father, former president Rodrigo Duterte.