Duterte gives assurance of clean elections in 2022

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, Nov. 22, gave the assurance of clean elections in 2022, the year his term ends.

The President gave the assurance as he reiterated he no longer had plans to stay in office.

“It’s too far away to be speculating or talking about it but I’m on my way out. What can I assure you, ladies and gentlemen, that it will be a clean election during my time,” Duterte said, adding that “it will be equal treatment for all.”

Duterte’s term ends on June 30, 2022.

His daughter,  Sara Duterte-Carpio, is being touted as his successor but the Davao mayor has been so far coy about her political plans.

The President had said he did not want his daughter to run for the highest position in the country or for any position at the national level because they come with “suffering.”

“Wag, ‘Day. Magdusa ka. I have to swallow ‘yung mga ginagawa sa inyo,” the President had said.