The Tamesis
November 27, 2025
Manila— Malacañang on Wednesday firmly insisted that Head of state Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is certified to hold the federal government’s leading task, calling Vice Head of state Sara Duterte’s revealed determination to function as “a kind of political instability.”
Throughout an interview, governmental press police officer Claire Castro was asked to react to Duterte’s current declaration that she prepared to end up being head of state if Marcos tipped down.
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” First off, the vice head of state … it’s inappropriate, it’s inappropriate that the vice head of state prepares for the resignation of the head of state. (It’s) the head of state that they’re shouting to tip down, which’s absolutely a kind of political instability,” she stated.
Castro was additionally asked whether Marcos was still efficient in acting as head of state and still in control of the existing circumstance in the federal government.
” Are you still asking this? Certainly. We see the head of state working; he does not quit working each day. He does not also obtain a getaway; he does not obtain a possibility to visit the coastline and swim. So, that is actually all set to be the leader of the nation? None aside from Head Of State Marcos Jr.,” she responded.
In a meeting in Davao City on Tuesday, Duterte was asked whether she would certainly prepare to function as head of state if Marcos observed phone call to surrender.
” Certainly. There is no question that I prepare,” Duterte stated.
” I oriented you on my advocate vice head of state. I understood I was initially in line. There was no doubt concerning what I would certainly do. That is my constitutional required, and I recognize when I ran you chose me as vice head of state recognizing I was initially in line,” she included.
Castro deplored the remarks, claiming they “deteriorated” public count on the federal government.
” She is threatening public self-confidence in the federal government and these remarks are sustaining an environment of unpredictability and dilemma,” the royal residence authorities stated at an instruction on Wednesday.
” We’ll see if she prepares, she anticipates the head of state to tip down, that’s her strategy, that’s her reasoning, that’s what they’re doing now,” she included.
” We additionally ask individuals: Are you all set for even more Mary Elegance Piatto?” she asked, describing among the claimed receivers of personal funds under the Workplace of the Vice Head Of State (OVP) help program.
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According to the 1987 Constitution, the vice head of state is initially in line of sequence “in case of the fatality, long-term special needs, elimination or resignation of the Head of state.”
