Rodrigo Duterte has announced his candidacy for Vice President of the Philippines and his daughter Sara wants to be the new President

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who cannot legally claim re-election, announced on Tuesday that he would run for vice-president in the 2022 election, or her daughter Sara could run for president.

“I present my candidacy for the vice-presidency” announced in a pre-recorded speech Duterte, elected President of the Philippines in 2016, and who according to the Constitution cannot serve a second term.

In the Phillippines, the president and vice-president are elected separately. The second replaces the first in the event of disability or resignation.

“I will continue my crusade. I’m worried about the rebellion, then about crime and drugs “Duterte assured.

The popular president, known for his authoritarian style and verbal excesses, recently suggested he could run for vice president to keep his immunity.

June 14, IThe Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Court in The Hague seeks judicial authorization to investigate alleged crimes against humanity committed during the war on drugs started with Duterte after he became president in 2016.

The information available indicates that members of the Philippine National Police and others who work with them, “They illegally killed between thousands and tens of thousands of civilians”said the then chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, that’s a statement.

Duterte’s leadership was also overshadowed by his ambiguity in diplomatic relations with Beijing and Washington, and the pandemic, which has caused more than 1.86 million infections and more than 31,900 deaths in the country.

Besides, the president led a legal crusade against critical voices and the media, like the prestigious journalist Maria Ressa, founder of the medium Rapper.

Before the presidential campaign next May, Duterte’s party, PDP-Laban, I would support the senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go, long close to the outgoing president.

However, a fraction of the match, favorable to the star boxer and potential candidate Manny Pacquiao, denounced that the Bong Go-Duterte ticket is a “smokescreen” whose objective is reveal at the last minute the real candidate: Sara, Duterte’s daughter, that belongs to another party.

And Sara Duterte-Carpio, poll favorite or Bong Go to win presidential election, could help protect Duterte from possible criminal prosecution, according to observers.

In part of his statement, cut before its broadcast, Duterte He said he and Bon Go would resign from the electoral campaign if their daughter stood for the presidential elections, presidential spokesman Harry Roque told AFP.

Polls continue to give great support to Duterte and his daughter Sara, current mayor of Davao, the southern city where the stronghold of this political clan is based.

According to a survey by Pulse Asia Research Last July, Sara and Rodrigo Duterte are the country’s favorite presidential and vice-presidential candidates with potential backing, respectively, by 28 and 18 percent of voters.

(With information from EFE)

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