Sara Duterte-Carpio (born Sara Zimmerman Duterte; May 31, 1978), also known as Inday Sara by the Davaoeños, is a Filipina lawyer, politician and the incumbent Mayor of Davao City. She also served as the city mayor from June 30, 2010 until June 30, 2013. Prior to her mayoral term, she has also served as vice mayor of Davao City from June 30, 2007 to June 30, 2010. She is also the daughter of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte.
Duterte-Carpio is Davao’s first woman mayor and the youngest to have been elected to the position in the political history of Davao City after she switched roles with her fatherRodrigo Duterte from 2010-2013 as mayor and vice mayor, respectively.
Vowing to be “useful and to serve the country at all times,” Duterte, the vice mayor in the three years prior, assumed the post that her father Rodrigo held for over 20 years. Sara won over House Speaker Prospero Nograles, her father’s longtime political rival, in an overwhelming lead of 200,000 votes in the 2010 elections. Nograles earlier filed a protest at the Commission on Elections in Manila questioning the results, alleging a “conspiracy” of local poll officials with Duterte.
In her inaugural speech, Duterte-Carpio said she wanted to be a pediatrician instead of a politician. “I never wanted to be a politician, but today I speak before you as city mayor,” she said. For over an hour, the front steps of City Hall was filled up with people wanting to have their pictures taken with Duterte after she was sworn into office.
Duterte was also one of the nine elected governors of the Philippine Red Cross in 2014.
Initially hesitant and an opposition, but in October 2015, she shaved her head to convince her father to run for President in the 2016 Philippine presidential elections, despite the latter’s reticence due to lack of campaign funds and political machinery.
She ran again for the mayoralty post for Davao City in the 2016 elections and won the position succeeding her father, now the current president, for the second time.
Dynasties
Barely two years into his term, Sara Duterte’s father, President Rodrigo Duterte, announced that he wants his daughter to succeed him.
The Dutertes are known to support political dynasties in the Philippines. They aggressively gathered support against the Anti-Political Dynasty Bill during 2015, stating that their nearly four decades of uncontested rule in Davao as a product of “democratic” process. They also accused various politicians of being political dynasties.
About two months after her father’s proclamation of Sara Duterte as his “successor”, Sara Duterte launched a movement that gathers support from Duterte’s political allies, supporters and friends and called it “Tapang at Malasakit” (lit. Courage and Compassion).
Sara Duterte denies that it has anything to do with any campaign or position, but pundits state that it was part of her plans to gain political traction for future campaigns and an attempt to rally political allies against Senator Antonio Trillanes’ “Tindig Pilipinas” (Be Upright, Philippines), a movement which actively pushes for investigation into Duterte’s corruption, hidden wealth, and involvement in extrajudicial killings and a stop to all of Duterte’s lies.
Personal life
Duterte has been married since 2007 to her fellow lawyer Manases “Mans” R. Carpio, and had two children: an adopted daughter nicknamed “Sharky” and a son named Mateo Lucas D. Carpio, nicknamed “Stingray”. Manases is the nephew of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales and Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio.
On April 18, 2016, in connection with the rape remark made by her father Rodrigo on one of his presidential candidacy campaigns, Duterte took to her Instagram account to admit that she was once a rape victim. However, Rodrigo Duterte dismissed his daughter’s admission and referred to her as a “drama queen”.On March 2, 2017, Duterte gave birth to her third child, a boy whom she named Marko Digong D. Carpio, nicknamed Stonefish.
— By the Wikipedia; BNA 19#23