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Duterte’s daughter officially becomes the 15th vice president of the Philippines

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Sara Duterte-Carpio, daughter of President Rodrigo Duterte, is the 15th vice president of the Philippines – Photo: CNN

According to the newspaper InquirerSara Duterte-Carpio will be the 15th vice president of the Philippines. Ms. Duterte-Carpio first entered politics in 2007, when she was elected deputy mayor of Davao City. She was then elected mayor of Davao City in the 2010 election and served as mayor until 2013.

Ms. Duterte-Carpio was a female lawyer before becoming the first female mayor of Davao City and the youngest person ever to hold the position.

In addition to being vice president, Ms. Duterte-Carpio will also serve as education minister under new President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

In the race for the vice-presidential title on the last election day, May 9, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio received more than 31 million votes, ranked first. Next was Senator Kiko Pangilinan (more than 9.1 million votes), Senate president Vicente “Tito” Sotto (more than 8.1 million votes), physicist Willie Ong (nearly 1.9 million votes).

Also on May 25, the Philippine Congress confirmed that Mr. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is the next president and will officially run the country from June 30.

Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is the second and only son of former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and former first lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos.

Former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr had a long time in power in the Philippines from 1965-1986.

Mr. Marcos Jr (64 years old) will take over the country from Mr. Duterte until 2028. The focus of the new president’s campaign is addressing the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, energy prices, jobs, improving infrastructure and improving education.

In the May 9 election, Mr. Marcos Jr won more than 56% of the votes in favor, or about 31 million votes. That’s almost double his opponent, Leni Robred, the outgoing vice president.

Philippine economy is expected to grow strongly by 7-9% in 2022

The challenge that awaits the new President Marcos Jr and the new Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio is that the Philippine economy is struggling after the pandemic, inflation and high unemployment rate.

After negative growth of 9.5% in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Philippine economy has recovered and achieved 5.7% growth in 2021.

Meanwhile, cThe early figures of 2022 were quite optimistic, the Philippine economy grew by 8.3% in the first quarter of 2022. higher than the 7% forecast by analysts, making it the fastest growing economy in East Asia and closer to its target of 7-9% growth for the full year.

Meanwhile, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) forecasts the Philippine economy to grow 6% in 2022 and 6.3% in 2023.

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