Sara Duterte is set to trailblaze a path and create a political career that defines her determination to be her own person. READ:
It must have been hard for Vice President-elect Sara Duterte to be her father’s daughter. As perhaps the country’s most popular president in modern times, outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte has enjoyed immense support but also unimaginable criticism from the people.In the middle of all that are his children—Paolo, Sara, Sebastian or Baste, and Veronica or Kitty. Sara, in particular, was anointed to follow in the pathways of her father’s successful run in national politics.
After all, he asked, why would his daughter would take a step down and run for vice president only when she was topping all known surveys?The Vice-President-elect, who is the first female mayor and the youngest Davao City mayor, said this was one of the reasons she trusts Marcos. Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte speaks to nurses at the Batangas Capitol during a campaign sortie on April 20, 2022.
Baste took over the mayoralty candidacy of Duterte when she ran as vice president, with Paolo as Davao City first district representative.Duterte first rose to national prominence when she punched a Davao City sheriff three times during a demolition work in Barangay Soliman in Davao’s Agdao district.The sheriff said he was just implementing a court order to demolish the residential area, but the mayor threw in two more punches on his face after initially punching him once.
President Duterte will be at the inauguration, which was held almost two weeks earlier than that of President-elect Marcos’ on June 30. Controversially, she wants to make military service mandatory for Filipinos once they turn 18 years old.She also run under the platform of changing the system of government to federalism—a proposal that his father has also made—and improving the country’s healthcare system and disaster preparedness.