VICE President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte-Carpio turns 46 today, having been born on May 31, 1978 to Rodrigo Roa Duterte and Elizabeth Abellana Zimmerman.
The middle child and only girl of three siblings, ' Inday Sara ' — as she is popularly known in her household and school, and until she ran for the second highest elective post in the land and won it via landslide vote in 2022 — hones her sociopolitical and leadership skills in the Duterte tradition of working in government and serving the public since way back to her paternal grandfather, Vicente Duterte, who served as provincial governor of Davao del Sur.
Ascent to the vice presidencyAs the term of her father as the 16th President of the Republic of the Philippines drew near, there was a strong clamor for her to gun for the presidency — seen by millions of voters as a smooth transition from a Duterte to a Duterte, as what happened in Davao City.She kept her options open in 2022, withdrawing her mayoralty reelection bid then decided to join forces with Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. as his vice president running mate.
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