DAVAO CITY—This city’s mayor, Sara Duterte-Carpio, reiterated her message rejecting calls to make her presidential bid in next year’s national and Presidential elections.
In a terse video message posted on Monday at the Internet chat group of Davao City reporters, the Presidential daughter thanked those groups egging her to run but suggested that “instead, let us use that power and resources” to help fellow Filipinos in dire need of food and jobs.
“Once again I am grateful to all my friends who believe in me and who relentlessly express their call for me to run For President,” she opened up in a video footage lasting one minute and 12 seconds.
While this gave her “comfort of having friends” and supporters who believed she could fit the rigors of a President, she admitted she also felt it in her heart.
But she stood pat on her previous rejection of those calls to consider a bid for Malacanang in the 2022 elections saying, “let us use instead use our power and resources to give food to those who are short on money and [who are] hungry and create jobs who lost their livelihood”.
She added, “I believe that even if we will not be running for President, in our show of strength and unity we are able to uplift many Filipino families in need,” she added. “Because we all agree that we shall be the change that we want to be in the world, so let us show the world how it is appropriately done.”
She still did not mention why she would not be running for President, insisting on silence “so that we will not hurt the feeling of others”. She did not elaborate in that statement she made last week.
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