In her latest video statement, Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte brushed off political intrigues and assured both her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte, and President Marcos that she is “not a problem to be solved” in response to their concerns over her wellbeing. “It is clear that both men are blessed with the heart to respect the will of a woman.
Both leaders are also gifted with the wisdom to know that I am not a problem and I do not need to be solved, rather, this is the time to focus on the work that needs to be done for the country,” Duterte said on Tuesday. The vice president released her most recent public address amid several media reports and lawmakers, questioning her stance in the Marcos administration. Duterte, however, stated that politics is not something that she ever discusses with her father and his successor. Duterte then went on to enumerate what she described as the real problems that need to be solved in our country, which are the state of education, inflation, terrorism, criminality, uncertain national security and peace.“As a Mindanaoan, I am a witness to how violence spawned poverty, lack of livelihood, internal displacement, and inequitable access to education opportunities for our children and the youth, which ultimately made the violence of radicalism more appealing to them,” she sai