Sara: Rody can no longer return to Phl

'What we should do as a country is to move on'

- NEIL JAYSON SERVALLOS

Vice President Sara Duterte has acknowledged the possibility that her father, former president Rodrigo Duterte, may no longer be able to return to the country as she accused the Marcos administration of being determined to keep him in The Hague.

Asked about how she felt regarding Sen. Ronald dela Rosa's disappointment over National Security Adviser Eduardo Año's reported role in Duterte's arrest, she said: China rejected Rody asylum bid? Story on Page 2.

"Sa totoo lang wala talaga akong nararamdaman. Hindi ako galit, hindi ako disappointed. Nothing at all. Kasi pointless naman na... magharbor ako ng feelings about what happened. Hindi na siya maibabalik. Hindi na mababalik si Pangulong Duterte sa Pilipinas. So what we should do as a country is move on from what happened. What will we do as our ways forward as a country and as a people from what happened?"

Duterte said in Filipino during a press conference yesterday streamed on the OVP’s Facebook account.

Duterte said there was no point in harboring anger against the Marcos administration as they refuse to listen to reason.

“Magalit man tayo, walang pupuntahan yung galit natin dahil hindi naman sila yan papanagutin ng pamahalaan. Nakikita nyo yung mga sagot nila, wala na sa ayos, wala na sa rason, wala na sa common sense, wala na sa batas. Pero walang magagawa laban sa kanila. We should move forward from what happened, the country should decide, the people should decide saan ba tayo papunta,” she said.

“We have now lost a former president. I pray that we do not lose the country next,” she said.

Meanwhile, Duterte also addressed rumors of a “traitor” within the group of people who were strategizing with her father in Hong Kong a day before he came home to the Philippines and was subsequently arrested.