Sara prefers private talk with BBM on FL issues

Whatever step she takes to deal with the recent public rebuke from First Lady Liza Marcos will be taken up privately with the Chief Executive, Vice President Sara Duterte said yesterday.

- NEIL JAYSON SERVALLOS

While she stressed that it was the First Lady's right to feel angry over the past year's state of affairs between the Dutertes and Marcoses, the Vice President said Liza's "personal feelings have nothing to do" with her mandate as a government official.

She also urged the public to talk about more important matters the nation is facing.

"As a person, the First Lady has the right to feel bad and angry... For us to move forward, we will leave the next steps to whatever outcome my private conversation with President Marcos would be," Duterte said in a statement.

She has yet to confirm whether she has reached out to the First Lady since the latter's television interview, wherein she expressed anger and disappointment over Duterte's appearances at rallies calling the President a drug addict and seeking his ouster. The Vice President's father, former president Rodrigo Duterte spearheaded those rallies.

Liza had been seen giving Duterte the the cold shoulder during public appearances since early this year.