42 Facts About Sara Duterte

Sara Duterte is the third female vice president, the third vice president to come from Mindanao, and the youngest vice president in Philippine history.

Sara Duterte was Davao City's vice mayor from 2007 to 2010.

Sara Duterte was elected as Davao City's vice mayor in 2007, before eventually being elected as the city's mayor from 2010 until 2013, succeeding her father and becoming the youngest and the first female mayor of the city.

Sara Duterte was an influential figure in national politics during her father's presidency, forming alliances with several political parties and playing a key role in the ouster of Pantaleon Alvarez as the Speaker of the House of Representatives in 2018.

Sara Duterte became the vice president on June 30,2022 and was inaugurated 11 days earlier in Davao City.

Sara Zimmerman Duterte was born in Davao City on May 31,1978, the second child to then-lawyer later president Rodrigo Duterte and flight attendant Elizabeth Zimmerman.

Sara Duterte has spoken of her "love-hate relationship" with her father when she was a student due to her disapproval for his womanizing tendencies and late night habits.

Sara Duterte attended San Pedro College, majoring in BS Respiratory Therapy, and graduated in 1999; in her inaugural speech as mayor of Davao City, Sara Duterte said she originally wanted to be a pediatrician instead of a politician.

Sara Duterte then worked for a few months as a court attorney at the office of Supreme Court Associate Justice Romeo Callejo Sr.

Sara Duterte served under her father, then-mayor Rodrigo Duterte, for one term until 2010.

Sara Duterte concurrently served as a regional officer of the National Movement of Young Legislators from 2007 to 2010.

In 2010, Sara Duterte was elected mayor, becoming the first female mayor of the city, as well as being the youngest to have been elected at 32.

Sara Duterte won over House Speaker Prospero Nograles, her father's political rival, in a lead of 200,000 votes in the 2010 elections.

Sara Duterte was the first woman to hold the chairpersonship and the first to be appointed from the government sector since the reorganization of the council in 1986.

On July 1,2011, Sara Duterte gained national attention when she punched Abe Andres, a Davao City Regional Trial Court sheriff, over the demolition of shanties in Barangay Kapitan Tomas Monteverde Sr.

Sara Duterte had earlier asked the court and the demolition team to delay the demolition but Andres refused, making her furious.

Sara Duterte decided not to seek re-election in 2013 to give way to her father Rodrigo.

Sara Duterte turned down her father's offer to run for representative of Davao City's 1st district.

Sara Duterte ran again for the mayoralty post for Davao City in the 2016 elections and won the position, succeeding her father for the second time.

Sara Duterte ran for reelection in the 2019 elections and was successful.

Sara Duterte promoted the city as a tourism and investment destination, introducing the "Davao: Life is Here" tagline to market the city in 2011.

Sara Duterte established the Peace 911 program to address the local communist rebellion through a "human-centered" approach, bringing several government services to far-flung areas.

Sara Duterte's administration established the Kean Gabriel Hotline for reporting child abuse anonymously.

Sara Duterte's administration oversaw the city's COVID-19 vaccination program when the national government began its vaccination program in early 2021.

Sara Duterte was considered by many political commentators as her father's successor after her role as a powerbroker in the 2019 midterm elections.

On July 9,2021, Sara Duterte said she was open to running for president.

Sara Duterte said this was to meet her supporters halfway, who had been previously asking her to run for president.

Sara Duterte was then adopted and endorsed by Partido Federal ng Pilipinas as their vice presidential candidate, making her the running mate of its presidential nominee, former senator Bongbong Marcos, and by the People's Reform Party.

Sara Duterte became the vice president-elect, winning the election with 32,208,417 votes with a margin of 22 million over her closest rival, Senator Francis Pangilinan.

Sara Duterte became the first vice president to be elected by a majority since the 1986 elections and the largest majority since 1969.

Sara Duterte earned the most votes for any office in a single-winner election in Philippine history.

Sara Duterte was the first vice president from Davao City, the youngest to become vice president at the age of 44, the third woman to hold the post after Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Leni Robredo, the third vice president who is a child of a president after Salvador Laurel and Arroyo, the third vice president to come from Mindanao after Emmanuel Pelaez and Teofisto Guingona Jr.

On May 11,2022, Marcos announced that Sara Duterte agreed to join his cabinet as Secretary of Education, although she earlier expressed interest in becoming the Secretary of National Defense.

Sara Duterte was inaugurated in Davao City on June 19,2022, but only officially started her term on June 30 in accordance with the Constitution.

Sara Duterte issued her first department order, the Department Order No 034 dated July 11,2022, wherein schools may either opt for five-day in-person classes or blended modality from the opening of classes on August 22 to October 31 before shifting to mandatory in-person classes observing physical distancing when necessary by November 2 onwards.

Sara Duterte declared that school uniforms and vaccination among students would be optional for the upcoming school year.

Sara Duterte mulled institutionalizing blended learning only in select schools and areas with special circumstances, including schools with possibly unrepaired or unfinished buildings.

Sara Duterte hosted television programs such as Una Ka BAI and Byaheng DO30 on GMA Davao, the local station of GMA Network.

Sara Duterte was elected as one of the governors of the Philippine Red Cross in 2014.

Sara Duterte is a reserve officer in the Armed Forces of the Philippines with the rank of colonel, being confirmed on March 11,2020.

However, Rodrigo Sara Duterte dismissed his daughter's admission and referred to her as a "drama queen".

Sara Duterte's statement was met with some skepticism by local LGBT activist groups.