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Sara will not support Go-Duterte tandem nor seek presidency in Eleksyon 2022
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte said Thursday she will not support the tandem of Senator Bong Go and her father President Rodrigo Duterte in the 2022 presidential elections even as she announced that she will not seek the presidency.
“No. I will not share my light this time,” Duterte said when asked by GMA reporter Joseph Morong if she will support the Go-Duterte tandem. Sara's Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP) supported candidates of PDP-Laban in the 2019 elections.
The younger Duterte said she and her father talked before the latter accepted the nomination
of PDP-Laban Cusi faction to run for vice president.She said she will not seek a national post because she and the President agreed that only one of them will run for a national post in next year’s polls.
"Yes, I am not running for a national position as we both agreed only one of us will run for a national position in 2022," Sara said in a separate interview.
Malacañang earlier said President Duterte will not run for vice president if Sara will pursue a presidential bid.
The PDP-Laban faction led by Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi has nominated Duterte to be the runningmate of Senator Christopher "Bong'' Go in the coming polls. On Wednesday, Go declined anew
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Asked to comment if it is possible that she will be a substitute for Go or the President in the end, Sara said she is not a member of PDP-Laban or any national party.
She said this will not change until the deadline for the substitution of candidates.
"Di man ako maka-sub, I am not a member of any national party," she said
Meanwhile, Sara said that politics does not affect her relationship with her father.
“Our politics do not interfere with our familial relationship. Iba ang trabaho, iba ang pamilya. Walang personalan (We separate work from family. Nothing personal),” she said.
In July, the younger Duterte disclosed that she was open to running for president in 2022.—Anna Felicia Bajo/AOL/RSJ, GMA News