Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto called out some “Dilawan groups” for misusing his old statement in a Facebook post that made him appear negatively commenting on the “endorsement” of Pres. Duterte for the presidential bid of his daughter, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio.
Pasig City Mayor Vico Sot
SunStar June 05, 2021 INITIALLY dismissed as a joke, the push to draft President Duterte as PDP-Laban candidate for vice president in next year’s elections is getting more serious. Will he give in to the clamor of his people?
It has not been done before. Hundreds of term-limited local chief executives run for vice governor or vice mayor every election cycle to make sure that they are not far removed from power while waiting for the next election but the idea of a sitting president “sliding” to the vice presidency was unheard of until this year.
Of course, it can be done. What is prohibited by the Constitution is the reelection of the president, not his running for any other office. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, for instance, ran for Congress, eventually becoming its speaker, after she stepped out of Malacañang.
Questions on the issue were raised earlier after former Defense Secretary Gibo Teodoro got his shot in Davao City, where he flew in to meet with his purported running mate in next year s elections.