MANILA (AP) – Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte plans to run for the Senate in mid-term elections next year, his daughter and the country’s vice president said on Tuesday.
When Duterte’s stormy presidential term ended in 2022, he said he would retire from politics, but he has walked back on his public pronouncements multiple times.
Vice President Sara Duterte said her two brothers also plan to run in the election while she eventually intends to return to her family’s southern political stronghold of Davao city, where she once served as a mayor, to run for the same position again.
She didn’t say when she intends to do that. One of her two brothers, Sebastian Duterte, who is the current Davao city mayor, also plans to run for the presidency in 2028, she told reporters.
