{"id":9845,"date":"2024-07-11T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/?p=9845"},"modified":"2024-07-10T09:16:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T08:16:24","slug":"sara-duterte-resigns-as-secretary-of-education-and-ntf-elcac-vice-chairperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/sara-duterte-resigns-as-secretary-of-education-and-ntf-elcac-vice-chairperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Duterte resigns as Secretary of Education and NTF-ELCAC Vice Chairperson"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 19, 2024, Sara Duterte unexpectedly announced<\/a> her resignation as Secretary of Education and Vice Chairperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) at a press conference. “My resignation is not from a place of weakness, but is brought about by my genuine concern for teachers and the Filipino youth,” said<\/a> Duterte. Duterte did not give any specific reasons for her decision. In September 2023, the House of Representatives rejected <\/a>Duterte’s controversial request<\/a> for confidential funds for the Department of Education amounting to 150 million pesos.<\/p>\n

According to political analyst Ronald Llamas, Vice President Sara Duterte could<\/a> no longer stay in the cabinet due to the growing distance between the Duterte family and President Marcos Jr. Llamas argued<\/a> that Duterte had not taken a stand against Marcos Jr. in response to her brother’s call for Marcos Jr.\u2019s resignation and emphasized<\/a> the contradiction in her political positioning: although she took part in anti-Marcos rallies<\/a>, she was also a member of his government. Duterte himself admitted<\/a> that the electoral alliance with Marcos was merely a campaign strategy and not a genuine alliance. Her resignation<\/a> was a strategic move to consolidate her political base, especially in light of the investigations<\/a> by the International Criminal Court (ICC).<\/p>\n

On June 23, 2024, Duterte stated<\/a> in an interview with GMA News that she does not intend to step down as Vice President. President Marcos Jr. has not yet appointed<\/a> a successor for the post. Marcos Jr. also admitted<\/a> that he is having difficulty finding a suitable successor. In light of Duterte’s resignation from the presidential cabinet, there was already speculation<\/a> among her supporters that she could take on a leadership role in the opposition.<\/p>\n

A few days later after Duterte’s resignation, she announced<\/a> that both her father Rodrigo Duterte and her two brothers would be running in the upcoming senatorial elections. During a press conference in Tacloban City on June 2, 2024, former President Rodrigo Duterte advised<\/a> his daughter not to run for president and said she should leave the office to those who are “ambitious.”<\/p>\n

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On June 19, 2024, Sara Duterte unexpectedly announced her resignation as Secretary of Education and Vice Chairperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) at a press conference. “My resignation is not from a place of weakness, but is brought about by my genuine concern for teachers and the Filipino […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73,58,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aktuelles-en","category-human-rights-news","category-internal-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9845"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9879,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9845\/revisions\/9879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}