Vice President Sara Duterte said on Wednesday, June 7, that it was Senator Imee Marcos who convinced her to run for the vice presidency, and not House Speaker Martin Romualdez as claimed by Cavite Representative Elpidio Barzaga Jr.
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Senator Marcos “persuaded me to run as Vice President — and it was a decision sealed only after President Bongbong Marcos agreed to the conditions I set before running for VP,” said Duterte. In a statement Wednesday on the simmering House discord, Barzaga came to the defense of Romualdez and said that the House Speaker “never said a bad thing about the Vice President despite being the obvious subject of her vicious insinuations following the alleged attempt to oust him.”
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