{"id":174720,"date":"2018-08-02T23:32:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T03:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=174720"},"modified":"2018-08-02T23:32:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T03:32:54","slug":"sara-duterte-lacsons-top-choice-among-young-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/02\/sara-duterte-lacsons-top-choice-among-young-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Duterte, Lacson&#8217;s top choice among young leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_142238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142238\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sara-Duterte-Carpio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-142238\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sara-Duterte-Carpio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sara-Duterte-Carpio.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sara-Duterte-Carpio-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sara-Duterte-Carpio-768x502.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-142238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cSpeaking of Mayor Sara Duterte, make no mistake: if the next leader of our country will emerge from the young, fresh and new faces in national politics, my top choice right now is Sara Duterte,\u201d Sen. Ping Lacson said<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/davaocitygov\/photos\/a.677286965656162.1073741855.328845310500331\/1723154744402707\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\"> (Photo: City Government of Davao\/Facebook)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Senator Panfilo Lacson on Thursday said Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio is his top choice among the present crop of young leaders emerging as the potential national leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeaking of Mayor Sara Duterte, make no mistake: if the next leader of our country will emerge from the young, fresh and new faces in national politics, my top choice right now is Sara Duterte,\u201d Lacson said during the regular Kapihan sa Senado news forum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is strong-willed, stern, vibrant, progressive-minded, and has obviously good leadership qualities,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Lacson said he is not saying there are no other emerging young leaders, pointing out that there are a number of young hardworking lawmakers with good leadership potentials in the Senate alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut at this time and this is my personal opinion, based on whatever political sense I have accumulated after my long years in government service, Mayor Sara stands out and is right in front of the pack,\u201d Lacson said.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, clarified that his statement is not an endorsement for the presidential daughter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m not endorsing her. I\u2019m just saying that among the known young leaders if we would choose from young and fresh faces in national politics, and I think you can agree with me, that Sara Duterte has really caught our attention. Not only because she\u2019s the daughter of the President but her track record coupled with her experience as local government official in Davao, says it all,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said her daughter will not seek a national post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Senator Panfilo Lacson on Thursday said Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio is his top choice among the present crop &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":142238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-jose-cielito-reganit","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174720","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=174720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}