Vice President Sara Duterte (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN)

ACT Teachers Party-list has assailed Vice President Sara Duterte for declaring that it's part of her duties to bring her father, former president Rodrigo Duterte, back home from The Netherlands.

Senatorial candidate ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro stressed that the International Criminal Court (ICC) trial involving the elder Duterte was for the thousands of deaths during his administration's war on drugs.

"Itigil na niya ang pagiging ipokrita dahil ginagawa lang niya ang pagpapabalik sa tatay niya mula sa ICC ay para hindi ito managot sa mga kasalanan nito sa mga biktima ng extra-judicial killings (EJK) sa kanyang pekeng drug war at red-tagging," Castro, a House deputy minority leader, said on Friday, March 21.

(She should stop being a hypocrite because the reason why she wants to bring her father home is to not make him accountable for what he did to the EJK victims in his fake drug war and red-tagging.)

The ICC is based at The Hague in the Netherlands. The former president has been detained at there since March 12.

Meanwhile, former ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio castigated the Vice President's supposed selective approach to helping Filipinos detained abroad.

"Vice President Duterte claims she has 'a duty to a fellow countryman' in ICC detention, but where was this sense of duty for the thousands of other Filipinos detained overseas? Has she shown any concrete actions to help Mary Jane Veloso or other OFWs facing grave situations abroad?" Tinio asked.

 Castro said the ICC proceedings must move forward in order to give justice to the victims of the Duterte drug war.

"The Vice President cannot hide behind her position to shield her father from accountability. Justice for the victims of the drug war must be served, and the ICC process should be allowed to proceed without political interference," the Makabayan solon concluded.