{"id":119534,"date":"2017-09-26T06:54:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T10:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=119534"},"modified":"2017-10-12T05:24:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T09:24:13","slug":"duterte-not-eyeing-daughter-as-successor-says-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/26\/duterte-not-eyeing-daughter-as-successor-says-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte not eyeing daughter as successor, says Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_100401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100401\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17800098_1943834869173765_1183031654225363477_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100401\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17800098_1943834869173765_1183031654225363477_n.png\" alt=\"FILE: Mayor Sara Duterte (Photo: Philippine News Agency)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17800098_1943834869173765_1183031654225363477_n.png 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17800098_1943834869173765_1183031654225363477_n-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Mayor Sara Duterte (Photo: Philippine News Agency)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte is not aiming to cling to power when he said he is eyeing his daughter Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte to be his successor, a Palace official said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said the President is just being \u201cpragmatic\u201d and was just ensuring that the gains of his administration would be preserved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re making a breathtaking leap by assuming that he wants power when he says that his daughter is somebody that he trusts,\u201d Abella said in a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a question of wanting to perpetuate power but ensuring that whatever gains he has \u2014 whatever gains that we have made, the administration may have made will be preserved by someone that he actually trusts,\u201d Abella added.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Duterte said he wants Sara to succeed him in 2022, saying he couldn\u2019t find any other better candidate than her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t find any other better candidate than Sara to become the next president,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p>However, Abella clarified that the President\u2019s preference for his daughter was primarily because of his trust and confidence in the mayor\u2019s capability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNakita niya \u2018yung capacity, capability, puso, intention nung \u2014 ni Sara Duterte,\u201d Abella said.<\/p>\n<p>Abella added Sara should be seen as \u201can independent personality\u201d and not just the President\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is an effective person and mayor and politician who happens to be his daughter so it\u2019s not a question of wanting to perpetuate power. So you know, I think there\u2019s a huge difference between the two,\u201d he also said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Duterte is not aiming to cling to power when he said he is eyeing his daughter Davao City &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":100401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[21199,6054,12129],"class_list":["post-119534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-abella","tag-duterte","tag-sara-duterte","mauthors-carlo-jacob-molina","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}