Sara hit for ‘mudslinging’

Vice-President (VP) Sara Duterte-Carpio’s campaign strategy for her allied political candidates centers on criticizing the Marcos government while being mum on the Philippines’ sea dispute with China, a congressman said on Monday.

“It seems she knows nothing about campaigns but to engage in political mudslinging… as her stone-etched template,” House Deputy Majority Leader and La Union Rep. Francisco Paolo P. Ortega V said in a statement. “She’s been going around hitting almost everybody, but never China.”

The Office of the Vice-President did not immediately reply to an e-mail seeking comment.

Once close political allies, the Marcos-Duterte alliance publicly started crumbling last year after Marcos allies at the House of Representatives stripped Ms. Duterte of hundreds of billions of pesos in secret funds and subsequently impeached her. — Kenneth Christiane L. Basilio