MANILA, Philippines
- Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte announced over the
weekend that he will retire from politics, not run for a higher post in 2016.
Duterte also
announced that he would like his daughter, ,Inday Sara, to be his
successor.
"It's not for
political dynasty na sinasabi nila, wala kami niyan... But si Inday can carry on as
mayor. I will retire after my term," the mayor said during a press
conference last Saturday.
The first woman mayor
of Davao City, Inday Sara held the
position from 2010 to 2013 and caught attention from the media when she mauled
a court sheriff during a violent demolition of informal settlers in 2011.
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Despite groups calling
on him to run for President in 2016, Duterte announced that he
has no plans of running for a higher post and that he is planning to retire
from politics due to his medical condition.
The mayor ordered
billboards urging him to run for President to be removed.
"Remove all the
billboards, yung mga 'Duterte for President' tanggalin niyo yan... I do not like it. I don not want to be a
hypocrite... I will never ever dream of what I cannot be," the Davao City mayor said.
Duterte earlier
said that he would rather die than become president and that he wants to kill people behind the
"Duterte for President Movement".
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