Sara Duterte to Trillanes: Leave me alone

Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte on Wednesday lashed back at Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for claiming that she will seek the presidency in 2022 if the other options to keep her family in power fall through.

The feisty mayor took to Facebook to slam Trillanes, who on Tuesday said President Rodrigo Duterte may push her to attempt to succeed him if other options for perpetuating power—declaring nationwide martial law or a revolutionary government and Charter change—fail.

“Leave me alone, Senator Trillanes. The last time a person irked me, I made sure to make it difficult for him to bring me down,” she said, citing the losing mayoral bid of erstwhile political rival, former Speaker Prospero Nograles, in 2010.

She advised the opposition senator not to think of her, speak of her name, “not even a whisper of Inday Sara from your ugly lips.”

“Leave me in peace in Davao City or else you and your friends will spend more than a billion in the 2022 presidential elections just to make me insignificant. Let me repeat, do not bother me and my slot will be available for a yellow Senator for the 2019 elections,” the younger Duterte said.

“President Duterte imagines you will be shot, on the other hand, I will make sure you are alive and in pain,” Sara Duterte added, referring to her father’s statement last week that Trillanes might just see himself shot someday due to his "arrogance" and "tough" behavior.

Disclosing that she has been described by her mother as “heartless,” Sara Duterte cautioned Trillanes not to anger her so that he “may remain relevant for the future generation.”

The younger Duterte joked last week about running for vice president before declaring she was open to seeking an elective post in 2019.

The midterm elections in 2019 will see candidates running for local positions and Congress while the presidential and vice presidential polls won't be until 2022. —KBK, GMA News