Sara won't resign as VP, DepEd chief

Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte will not resign from her posts, dispelling confusion over her supposed plan to run in the 2025 elections.

- ROMINA CABRERA

“I did not say anything like that in my speech. That is why whenever someone asks, I say that whatever I laid down in my speech is clear. I believe since the interpretation is line per line and not the speech as a whole, there tend to be questions,” Duterte told reporters yesterday.

She said parts of her speech were misconstrued by some people, which caused confusion regarding her political plans.

Duterte announced her intention to run in “the next elections,” while also saying that her brothers, Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte and Davao City 1st District Rep. Paolo Duterte, are no longer running for office in 2025.

She was quoted in Cebuano as saying that she is “campaigning for the next elections,” even as her term as vice president ends in 2028.

The Vice President reiterated that everything about running for office was laid down in her speech in Barangay Bago Gallera in Davao City, and that the confusion was because of the “piecemeal appreciation” of what she said.

“It means, they remove one line to get the interpretation that they want,” she said.