FORMER president Rodrigo Duterte said he would seek a political comeback if efforts to impeach his daughter Vice President Sara Duterte would push through.
The elder Duterte, who described himself as retired, said he could make a stab at the vice presidency or the Senate.
“Kapag ginawa ninyo ‘yan, babalik ako sa politika,” he said in the talk show Gikan sa Masa Para sa Masa.
“It’s either I run for Senator or I will run for Vice President maski matanda na ako. Kung si Inday, ang mag president okay lang. Simple lang naman ‘yan,” he added.
He made the statements as he questioned those behind supposed efforts to unseat the Vice President. He said that before any impeachment talk about his daughter, the intelligence funds given to her should be audited first to check of these had not been used properly.
“You cannot go to a guessing game, basta na lang i-impeach. For what? Intelligence fund? Binigay sa iyo eh, bakit ibigay sa akin kung di ko gastusin?” he said.
He said other politicians don’t need to worry about him as of now. But he might be forced to go out of retirement, he said.
“When I begin to talk— election is just around the corner— talagang magkababuyan. I do not lose anything, I’m retired,” he said.
He called on “eager beavers” to “shut up.”
The former President also reiterated his grievance against Speaker Martin Romualdez for, as he put it, embarrassing the Vice President over the intelligence funds issue.
He said Romualdez should have controlled the “communists,” apparently referring to the militant lawmakers who questioned the Vice President’s confidential funds.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has spoken up in support of the Vice President, saying he does not want her to be impeached. He also said their alliance, which was forged for the May 2022 elections, remains intact.
