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(Eagle News) — Two senators on Tuesday, Feb. 19, backed Davao Mayor Sara Duterte as the country’s president in the future, noting what they said were her good qualities. In a text message to reporters, Senator Panfilo Lacson said the daughter of incumbent President Rodrigo Duterte remains his “top choice” if “the next leader of our country would emerge from the young, fresh and new faces in national politics.” “I’ve said this before sometime in […]
(Eagle News) — In these pictures courtesy of a member of Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s staff, Davao Mayor Sara Duterte and Arroyo are seen together in a meeting of House of Representatives members at a Quezon City hotel. The meeting reportedly took place after Arroyo was elected as the Lower House’s new leader. Prior to Arroyo’s election, there were rumors it was the Davao mayor who wanted the former President to replace Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez. […]
(Eagle News)—-Davao Mayor Sara Duterte said the regional political party she created was “set to create alliances with other groups to help each other.” The Davao mayor, who is also the Hukbong ng Pagbabago chair, said, however, that HNP was engaged in talk with “local parties” and not national ones. She said it would be a “difficult decision to go national and I am not ready to decide on it right now.” She said “even […]
(Eagle News) — Davao Mayor Sara Duterte on Tuesday, July 24, congratulated Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for her new post as Speaker of the House of Representatives. “Congratulations to SPGMA. A strong leader,” she said in a text message. The presidential daughter refused to comment, however, on the change in leadership. Rumors had it it was the Davao mayor who had a hand in the ouster of Alvarez as Speaker. The presidential daughter had been […]
(Eagle News) — Davao Mayor Sara Duterte on Wednesday, June 27, said the #Babaeako social media campaign against President Rodrigo Duterte was bound to fail. In an Instagram post, the Davao mayor said that in the first place, “what (the President) doesn’t like lies not in the gender, but in the character.” “He has no respect for weakness. And many women and some men are known to be damsels in distress, that #babaeako included,” she said. […]
(Eagle News)–Davao Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio on Friday asked her father, President Rodrigo Duterte, to reconsider his plan to resume peace talks with the communist rebels. “If talks are revived, we are most certain that the NPAs (New People’s Army) will continue to terrorize government forces and civilians,” the Davao mayor said in a statement. For this, Duterte-Carpio cited the torching of heavy equipment vehicles by alleged NPA members during the long holiday, and the death […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said he hoped one of his grandsons would become mayor of Davao someday. In particular, he said he wished Omar Duterte, the son of former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte and Paolo Duterte and Lovelie Sumera, would assume the post he himself held for over 20 years before he became President. He said as for him, he no longer wanted to extend his term because of his old age. […]
Says New People’s Army “soldiers” who will surrender to the gov’t will receive houses, jobs (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte expressed support for the peace talks with Communists launched by her daughter Sara Duterte in Davao, even if talks between the national government and the rebels were already terminated months ago. “Yes,” Duterte told reporters when asked if he supported the Davao mayor’s initiative, upon his arrival in the country from his 2-day visit […]
