Sara Duterte says she has received offers as a “partner” within the 2022 Philippine elections

Sara Duterte-Carpio, the mayor of Davao City, is leading in opinion polls but has not yet revealed her political plans before the October filing deadline.

Duterte-Carpio, 43, said on Facebook that lawmakers Sherwin Gatchalian and Christopher “Bong” Go “have personally expressed their offer to run for the position of my vice chairman.”

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It is unclear when Go made the offer, but Duterte-Carpio’s post got here late Wednesday night, days after Go rejected the ruling party’s endorsement as its presidential candidate.

She said other potential candidates included former Defense Minister Gilbert Teodoro, who made a bid through mutual friends, and the son and namesake of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

Go said he’s open to the concept.

“When I learned that there have been certain candidates who would love to be Mayor Sara’s vice chairman within the event that she runs for president, I expressed my willingness to be considered,” he said in a press release Thursday.

Asked at a business forum whether he might contest the presidency himself, Marcos, higher often called “Bongbong,” said running for president was a possibility.

Duterte-Carpio was quoted within the media as saying she was open to running.

“Whether or not she has already decided on her plans to run, there is really an uproar in many sectors,” said political analyst Edmund Tayao. “Many politicians imagine she will likely be a formidable presidential candidate.”

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The structure bars her 76-year-old father from searching for a second term, but his opponents imagine he could expand his power by electing an ally.

He has declared that he’ll run for vice chairman if his daughter Duterte-Carpio doesn’t run for president.

Duterte stays popular despite his notoriously bloody anti-drug campaign and growing criticism over the country’s coronavirus outbreak, considered one of the worst in Asia.