DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 18 June) – The first time Sara Zimmerman Duterte heard her father, Rodrigo Roa Duterte, declare “I’m proud of you” was 11 years ago, on July 3, 2011, when she was 33 and on …
DAVAO CITY – The first time Sara Zimmerman Duterte heard her father, Rodrigo Roa Duterte, declare “I’m proud of you” was 11 years ago, on July 3, 2011, when she was 33 and on her first term as Davao City mayor.
“You were elected by the people to defend them. You were just doing your job,” he said of his daughter, who had by then been dubbed “The Puncher.” A month after that punching incident, Sara would say what she did was something she could not be proud of, that she was “naulaw. Ulaw gyud kaayo” . In that 2011 interview, she recalled having joined him in some of his sorties. “In fact, when I enter a barangay now, some people would show me pictures of those visits.”
“Even in college, I still wanted to be a doctor. I was influenced by the series, ER. I wanted to be an ER doctor,” she said. avao City Mayor Sara Duterte takes a short walk along San Pedro Street on Satrurday to thank the personnel and police officers involved in the preparations for her oath-taking as the country’s 15th Vice President on Sunday. MINDANEWS PHOTO
“The pressure on me to return home without finishing med school was huge. With all their hopes, I was embarrassed to face my parents and my brothers so I did not want to come home,” she said. Sara went to the United States with her mother and youngest brother Sebastian. “At that time, I thought of not coming home anymore since I was a respiratory therapist anyway, I could probably practice my profession there. But in our telephone conversation, Mayor Rody said, “Ipa deport tika dinha.
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