source: PDI
DAVAO CITY—Mayor Sara Duterte has defied her father’s wishes and withdrawn from the race for congressman against a key Duterte political rival in a move that is raising more questions than answers here.
The tipping scale was seen to tilt in favor of the incumbent congressman of the first district, Karlo Nograles, following Sara’s decision not to file her certificate of candidacy (COC) for representative in violation of an apparent deal with her father, Rodrigo Duterte, who is running for mayor of the city again.
Rodrigo, incumbent vice mayor, is running for mayor against four opponents who are not known. He is reclaiming his old post after term limits forced him to let go of the mayoral position and sit as vice mayor of his daughter while waiting for the opening to run for mayor again.
Rodrigo had counted on Sara to run against Karlo, incumbent congressman and son of key Arroyo ally and former Speaker Prospero Nograles, who is a bitter Duterte rival.
The Nograles family has been able to keep the first district seat in the last 20 years by alternately fielding father and son when term limits catch up with them.
Instead of heeding her father’s wish, Sara shut the door to another elective post. She released a statement in the afternoon of the last day of filing COCs, saying she was not running for reelection to allow her father to reclaim his old post. Neither is she running for congressman as her father had wanted.
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