Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's daughter is set to run for president in next year's election and her father's longtime aide, who filed his vice presidential candidacy, will be her running mate, broadcasting firm ABS-CBN news reported late Saturday.
Sara Duterte-Carpio is currently mayor of Davao, the Philippines' third-largest city, and filed on Saturday to run for mayor again. She has previously said she would not run for national office next year.
ABS-CBN news based its report on an interview that Duterte had with a broadcast journalist right after he announced that he was retiring from politics while accompanying his closest loyalist, Sen. Christopher "Bong" Go, who filed his vice presidential candidacy.