Long announced as a president candidate to succeed his father, Sara Dutete finally announced that she was counting on the post of vice president of the country.
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Sara Dutete will not finally succeed his father. The daughter of President Philippine, Rodrigo Duterte, announced, on Saturday, November 13, his candidacy for the vice-presidency of the country in the May 2022 elections, ending the speculation that lent him the intention to shine the presidency of the country. In the Philippines, President and Vice-President are elected separately.
But, to the surprise of the electoral commission, responsible for collecting the presidency and the vice-presidency before the deadline of November 15, the outgoing President, Rodrigo Duterte, said Saturday also that He could also briguize the vice-presidency, against his daughter, when he had announced that he would not, at the beginning of October.
m. Dutage, who can not constitutionally claim a second presidential term of six years, “will give his certificate of application to the vice-president Monday, that’s what he said,” said the spokesman for the Martin Presidency Andanar to the Philippine ABS-CBN string . “I would like to believe that this is the plan for the moment. I do not know if it will be the same plan by tomorrow or by Monday,” he, however, nuanced.
The support of Ferdinand Marcos Junior
So far, observers accounted rather on a candidacy of Sara Dutete to the Presidency. These conjectures were fueled by the surprise withdrawal, a few days ago, of his application for a new mandate at the Mayor of Davao (in the southern country), and by his sudden rallying at the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats, the party National politics of its ally and former President Gloria Arroyo.
The candidacy of M me Dutete received, from his announcement, the support of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Junior, 64 years old, who brigged the presidency and sees his chances of successful success . Mr. Marcos is the son and the namesake of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, in power from 1965 to 1986, before being driven out by a popular insurrection.
Sara Dutete, 43, had so far in mind in opinion surveys on the preferences of the voters for the presidential elections of May 2022, while “Bongbong” Marcos was given second position.
Most observers bet on an agreement between Sara Duterte and Ferdinand Marcos Junior for the first postula to the presidency and the second to the vice-presidency, a position without great power. But it’s finally the opposite that happened.
2028 in the viewfinder?
“The fact that Dute Brigue the vice presidency consolidates more or less” Bongbong “Marcos in the number one competitor position, a candidate to beat during these elections”, commented on the political analyst Richard Heydarian. According to him, the popularity ratings of Sara Dutete and his father have deteriorated in recent months, and the Duterte clan felt the wind turn in favor of Mr. Marcos. If Sara Dutete carries the vice-presidency, it will maintain “a dutere close to the summit and in a good position for the election of 2028,” said Mark Thompson, Director of the South-East Asia Research Center in the City University of Hong Kong.
The candidacy of the son of the old dictator, however, faces some obstacles. Its detractors have asked the Electoral Commission to invalidate its application because of several convictions for tax evasion in the 1990s.
Other candidates already declared to the presidential election are the Superstar Manny Pacquiao boxer, the Mayor of Manila and Famous Actor Francisco Moreno Domagoso and the current Vice-President, Leni Robredo.
Elected In 2016, Rodrigo Duterte went very famous for his war against the drug that made thousands of deaths, and who is currently being investigated by the International Criminal Court.