Sara: no campaign role
(UPDATES) VICE President Sara Duterte said Thursday she will neither campaign for the Marcos administration nor a possible ticket with her father, former president Rodrigo Duterte, in the 2025 elections.
Duterte, who ended her stint as education secretary, said she was invited by both Marcos and her father to campaign for their candidates, but she declined them both as she wants to think about her direction in the 2025 polls.
Duterte also said that her regional party, Hugpong ng Pagbabago, is not going to participate in the «Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas» coalition of the President's Partido Federal ng Pilipinas, Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats, Nationalist People's Coalition and the National Unity Party.
HE’S IN Vice President Sara Duterte hands the seal of the Department of Education office to Sen. Juan Edgardo Angara during turnover rites on July 18, 2024. PHOTO BY ISMAEL DE JUANHowever, she said she would have a «heart-to-heart» talk with her father's allies in the Senate, Senators Bong Go and Ronald dela Rosa, who are likely to seek reelection.
The vice president said, however, that «anything can change» between now and the filing of certificates of candidacy (CoCs) in 2025, stressing that nothing is final until the last day of filing of CoCs.
As she was leaving the Department of Education (DepEd), Duterte said she was not keen on joining the Marcos Cabinet in another role.
AdvertisementTaking over from Duterte is former senator Juan Edgardo Angara, who vowed to «hit the ground running» at the department.
Speaking to reporters after the turnover ceremony held at the DepEd headquarters in Pasig City, Duterte said she did not have any regrets about serving the DepEd for two years.
«In fact, it is with a heavy heart that I will leave the Department of Education, I loved this job, I loved my colleagues in DepEd,» Duterte said in Filipino.
What she regretted, however, is not being able to meet the deliverables of the Marcos administration, something that she hoped Angara would continue as secretary, including the review of the Senior High Curriculum which was supposed to end this year.
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