DAVAO CITY—If ever she chose to run for whatever post in next year’s elections, she would not need any money from the government’s anticommunist fund to oil her election machinery, Mayor Sara Duterte said in reply to questions on Davao City’s share in the counterinsurgency budget.
“There is no need to oil any election machinery,” she said in reply to questions raised by Bayan Muna Rep. Ferdinand Gaite on the huge sum Davao City would be getting from the government’s P16.4 billion anticommunist fund.
“I do not need Elcac funds to win any election,” said the mayor and eldest daughter of President Rodrigo Duterte, referring to the National Task Force to End Local…
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