Vice President Leni Robredo speaks before the Meeting of the Rotary Club of Manila on October 14, 2021. Screengrab from Facebook / OVP
MANILA, Philippines — Presidential aspirant and incumbent Vice President Leni Robredo on Friday said she is willing to give the next vice president a bigger role in the government should she win the highest elective post in the country next year.
Robredo also said she doesn’t mind working with whoever wins the vice presidency, even those from the current administration.
“So kahit sino iyong maging VP, bibigyan ng malaking role sa pamahalaan dahil iyong pagkakaintindihan namin magreresulta ng maraming kabutihan para sa bansa natin,” Robredo told reporters in a press briefing in Sorsogon when asked if she’s willing to work with vice presidential aspirant Senator Bong Go.
(So whoever becomes the VP, I will give them a big role in the government because our mutual cooperation will result for the greater good in our country.)
“Kung ako palarin, hindi ko gagawin sa Vice President iyong na-experience ko as Vice President ngayon,” Robredo added.
(If I become lucky, I would not do to the next vice president my experiences as a vice president now.)
Robredo once served in President Rodrigo Duterte’s Cabinet as the head of the government’s Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, but she resigned in December 2016 after Duterte ordered to stop inviting her to Cabinet meetings.
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Duterte, who has had enough of Robredo’s criticism of his war on drugs, appointed her as co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs in late 2019.
The Vice President accepted the designation, but Duterte fired Robredo from the post just 18 days after she accepted the job, saying she could not be trusted.
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