Sara Duterte ‘consults’ with former President Gloria Arroyo

Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte met with former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Wednesday.

“Yes, I had lunch with FPGMA. No comment on other matters,” said the mayor to GMA News Online.

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The meeting allegedly took place at a hotel in Manila.

In a tweet from GMA News reporter Tina Panganiban Perez, it was said that Duterte’s meeting with Arroyo was for “continuing consultations.”

The meeting included Davao Occidental Governor Claude Bautista of Hugpong ng Pagbabago, a regional party formed by Mayor Sara.

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In the latest Pulse Asia survey, it appears that Mayor Sara is leading the respondents’ bid to be the next president of the country in Election 2022.

In the survey, 28 percent of respondents said they would vote for Mayor Sara when she ran for president, while 18 percent would vote for her father when she ran for vice president.

Her father, President Rodrigo Duterte, topped the list of possible vice presidents.

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Last week, the mayor said he was open to the possibility of running for president.

Sara Duterte ‘consults’ with former President Gloria Arroyo

Mayor Sara Duterte announced this when she met with Cebu Governor Gwen Garcia.

Senators Sonny Angara and Imee Marcos believe that the Duterte-Duterte tandem will be “candidates to beat” if they run for president and vice president in Election 2022.

Angara explained that the president’s popularity usually declines as the end of his term approaches, which does not happen to President Duterte.

“The only thing that can derail his chosen successor is the failure to unite behind a single candidate, similar to how the people of [President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III] backed different candidates in 2016,” said Angara.

On the other hand, Marcos said that we should wait and see what will happen to the father and son duo because of Mayor Sara’s statement that she is against the Duterte-Duterte tandem in the coming election.

“Ang mag amang [Duterte] ang pinakamalakas na kandidato. Kaya lang, nasabi na ni Mayor Sara na ‘di raw siya makiki-tandem sa ama niya. Abangan ang susunod na kabanata,” said Marcos who is a known ally of Sara Duterte.

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