MANILA, Philippines — Presidential daughter and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte on Thursday pushed back against the unity coalition formed by her father’s critic, retired Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio, saying it smacks of authoritarianism.
Carpio’s pro-democracy coalition dubbed 1Sambayan aimed to field a ticket of candidates for the 2022 elections that would challenge President Rodrigo Duterte’s “anointed one.” The candidates listed by the group had to pass a criteria involving with good moral character and aversion to extra judicial killings, while rejecting “those identified with authoritarianism.”
But according to the younger Duterte, it was Carpi…
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