Vice President Sara Duterte rejects calls for her resignation – noting millions of Filipino voters entrusted her with the country’s second highest position.
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00:00Vice President Sana Duterte rejects calls for her resignation,
00:04noting millions of Filipino voters entrusted her with the country's second-highest position.
00:08I will not answer to the young guns because I need to answer to the 32 million people who voted for me.
00:20I will not leave this country.
00:23On Wednesday, September 25, Duterte called for a press briefing for the first time since 2022.
00:29A Cubicol representative, Jill Bongalon, a member of the so-called Young Guns in the House,
00:34has called for Duterte's resignation. He cited her absence at budget briefings as evidence of
00:39her seeming disinterest in her role. Duterte reiterates her office will just have to make
00:44due with the P733 million budget she anticipates the OVP will get for 2025.
00:49The amount is over P1 billion less than what her office requested.