Fresh from the highly successful two day official visit in Japan, President
Rodrigo Duterte is back in reality, that
is dealing with Philippine politics and gossips altogether.
Rumors have
been swirling around that by the time the president’s terms is over, his eldest
daughter incumbent Davao City Mayor Inday Sarah Duterte will be gunning for the
seat in Malacañan.
The
President has branded this rumor of his daughter becoming President as “cheap
talk.” *
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| Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte during her dad's inauguaration (photo credit to owner) |
The
president has been quoted plenty of times making a joke that his daughter will
be replacing him as president of the country, as it was also Sara who replaced
him as mayor of Davao. The President told that Inday Sara was not interested at
all in becoming the next President.
The speaking
engagements of the Davao City Mayor has also been a source of speculations that
the mayor is slowly making the move for a bigger political aspirations in the
future. In last month’s inauguration of Tapang at Malasakit Alliance for the
Philippines in Taguig City, the Davao City Mayor was introduced as “the next
President.”
It was also
in the same event, Inday Sara doused the speculation that said inauguration of
the pro-Duterte alliance was her launching pad for the presidential run
for 2022, but only a means to unite all
Filipinos.
The Mayor
insisted that she would stay in Davao, and made mention of the possibility of
running for a seat in the House of Representatives for the first district of
the provice which incumbent Representative Karlo Alexei Nograles would vacate.
“Inday is not interested. I’m telling you
the truth,” President Duterte said. Inday is the nickname of the Davao City
Mayor.
He said Sara did not even want to be mayor
and had even tried to resign on July 1 “because of blah, blah, blah.” *
“It was a very agonizing moment for me,”
Mr. Duterte said. “She really didn’t want it,” he said.
The President said he had to convince Sara
to stay on, telling her that people elected her into office and she had to
honor it.
Report from PDI
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