Vice President Sara Duterte will not resign from her post as the country’s second highest elected official amid calls for her to do so after she skipped deliberations in the House of Representatives on the proposed P2-billion budget in 2025 of the Office of the Vice President.
“Hindi ako aalis dito dahil inilagay ako ng mga tao dito [I will not be leaving because the people put me here] believing that I will work for the country. That is what we did. We worked,” Duterte told members of the media.
House Assistant Majority Leader Jil Bongalon on Tuesday criticized Duterte for not attending the plenary debates for the OVP’s proposed outlay for 2025.
“Kung hindi na po siya interesado sa kanya pong duties and functions as the vice president, we can ask the vice president to step down,” House Assistant Majority Leader Jil Bongalon said.
(If she is not interested in fulfilling her duties and functions as the vice president, then we can ask her to step down.)
House Deputy Speaker Jayjay Suarez of Quezon said Duterte’s absences in the budget hearings ran contrary to her mandate.
Duterte, in response, said that she did not want to respond to the younger lawmakers in the House.
“Hindi naman kasi ako sasagot sa young guns dahil kailangan ko sumagot sa 32 million na bumoto sa akin, hindi sa isa or dalawa na tao,” Duterte said.
(I’m not going to answer to the young guns because I have to answer to the 32 million who voted for me, not to one or two people.) —NB, GMA Integrated News
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