{"id":1016761,"date":"2021-11-15T20:13:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T01:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1016761"},"modified":"2021-11-15T20:13:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T01:13:46","slug":"philippines-duterte-to-run-for-senate-after-daughter-announces-vp-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philippines-duterte-to-run-for-senate-after-daughter-announces-vp-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines: Duterte to Run for Senate After Daughter Announces VP Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fphilippines-duterte-to-run-for-senate-after-daughter-announces-vp-bid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1016761&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-944075600-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/2021\/11\/15\/news\/duterte-files-coc-for-senator\/1822313\">filed<\/a> his candidacy for a Philippine Senate seat in a May 2022 general election, two days after his daughter, Sara Duterte, filed her candidacy for the Philippines\u2019 vice presidency in the same election.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines\u2019 constitution bars presidents of the country from serving more than a single, six-year term, meaning Duterte may not seek reelection to the Philippines\u2019 highest office in 2022. News that Duterte will run for a Philippine Senate seat next year ends months of speculation that he might file a bid for the Philippines\u2019 vice presidency in May 2022, as the office is elected separately from the Philippine presidency.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sara Duterte\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mb.com.ph\/2021\/11\/13\/lakas-cmd-hails-sara-duterte-as-its-vp-bet\/\">confirmation<\/a> on Saturday that she will campaign for the Philippines\u2019 second-highest political office next year likewise ends weeks of conjecture by local media about what moves, if any, she might make in regard to the Philippines\u2019 upcoming general election. The younger has served as the mayor of Davao City, a major Philippine metropolis, since 2016 \u2013 a position her father held for decades. The politician <a href=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1512509\/sara-duterte-withdraws-coc-for-davao-city-mayor\">withdrew<\/a> her \u201ccertification of candidacy\u201d for reelection as Davao City mayor on November 9, opening up the possibility that she might seek candidacy for other vacant posts in the May 2022 general election.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.059701492537\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte will be vying in next year&#8217;s elections, but not as a vice presidential candidate as many had believed.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Duterte filed his candidacy for senator instead.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8ja1GHrlBp\">https:\/\/t.co\/8ja1GHrlBp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Manila Times (@TheManilaTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheManilaTimes\/status\/1460298345080299520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sara Duterte, 43, has led Philippine opinion polls throughout 2021 as a preferred candidate for the nation\u2019s presidency next year. In response to rampant rumors she might seek to succeed her father as the Philippines\u2019 president in May 2022, Sara <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/01\/16\/rodrigo-duterte-philippine-presidency-is-not-for-women\/\">told<\/a> Reuters in January she had no plans to campaign for the office.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI am not being coy nor am I doing a \u2018last-minute,&#8217;\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1383885\/phs-duterte-says-presidency-no-job-for-a-woman\">wrote<\/a> the news agency via text message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the whole country does not want to believe (this) then I can\u2019t do anything about it. Not everyone wants to be president. I am one of them,\u201d Sara said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank all of them for their trust and confidence in what I can do but my refusal to run for president is not the end of the world,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Sara Duterte announced that she had joined a new political party, Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD), on November 13 as part of her bid to run for the Philippine vice presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s final. Mayor Sara Duterte is now the official candidate of the Lakas-CMD for Vice President in the 2022 national election,\u201d Lakas-CMD President Ferdinand Martin Romualdez told reporters on November 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are honored that Mayor Sara accepted the challenge to help lead the party at a crucial time when the nation desperately needs a steady leader who can inspire us all to bounce back from the ravages of the pandemic,\u201d Romualdez said.<\/p>\n<p>Lakas-CMD is a center-right political party that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunstar.com.ph\/article\/46999\/Business\/Lakas-CMD-may-back-Duterte-for-president\">supported<\/a> Rodrigo Duterte during his successful 2016 campaign for the Philippine presidency. Lakas-CMD is associated with Coalition for Change, which is a larger political party currently led by Rodrigo Duterte. Sara Duterte previously belonged to political parties affiliated with PDP-Laban, which is a national party with populist ideologies also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/03\/16\/philippines-manny-pacquiaos-political-party-pressures-term-limited-duterte-to-run-for-vp\/\">headed<\/a> by her father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday filed his candidacy for a Philippine Senate seat in a May 2022 general election, two days after his daughter, Sara Duterte, filed her candidacy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}