Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio is running for president in next year's elections, Albay 2nd District Rep. Joey Salceda claimed Wednesday. Halalan2022
Salceda made the remark after the President's daughter withdrew her candidacy for reelection on Tuesday.
Salceda said he last spoke to Duterte-Carpio an hour "before everything went down." The Davao Mayor withdrew from the mayoralty race on the same day that her brother, Davao City Vice Mayor Sebastian "Baste" Duterte, withdrew his candidacy for reelection. The city mayor's office also fired Tuesday her information officer, Jefry Tupas, for attending a party where anti-narcotics officers confiscated some P1.5-million worth of party drugs and marijuana. When asked if Duterte-Carpio would be running alongside former senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Salceda said it was a "speculation."
"I’m not sure about that. Definitely that’s a speculation because she’s running for president. All these poltical gyrations just shows she’s going toward the presidency," he said. "I cannot say confirming but based on our long-running chats, kilometric chats--because I provided her with so many big data about her prospects-- I think basically she will make a good president in the first place."
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