VP Sara to spend birthday with father Rody in The Hague

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VICE President Sara Duterte will be spending her birthday with her father Rodrigo, who is currently detained in The Hague in the Netherlands.

The Vice President disclosed that she and her mother, Elizabeth Zimmerman, will fly to the Netherlands in time for her birthday on May 31.

“I promised my mother and father that we’d be together (for my birthday). I will return to The Hague with mom because in our last visit she was unable to secure permission to enter (the prison),” Sara said on Wednesday, April 23, per a report by Philippine Star.

“So when I talked to president Duterte yesterday, he said he’s waiting for mom’s visit and I told him we’ll see each other on my birthday,” she added.

Duterte added she and her father recently talked over the phone.

The Vice President relayed that the former President, who is being held at the Scheveningen prison for his crimes against humanity trial over the war on drugs, instructed her to help convince the public to vote for the senatorial slate of PDP-Laban.

“We talked yesterday, he called me up. He said to tell the people plainly to vote straight PDP-Laban,” she said.

The Vice President said she was also convinced by her father to change her plans about not joining sorties.

“Yes (I will join sorties). I’m strategizing what to do. My aim was to go around and thank people, but he told me not to beat around the bush, convince people to vote straight (PDP),” she added.

Apart from the 10 candidates of her father’s party, she said she would also campaign for Sen. Imee Marcos and Las Piñas Rep. Camille Villar.