Sara Duterte

Sara Duterte-Carpio
Mayor of Davao City
Incumbent
Assumed office June 30, 2016
Preceded by	Rodrigo Duterte
In office June 30, 2010 – June 30, 2013
Preceded by	Rodrigo Duterte
Succeeded by	Rodrigo Duterte
Vice Mayor of Davao City
In office June 30, 2007 – June 30, 2010
Preceded by	Luis C. Bonguyan
Succeeded by	Rodrigo Duterte
Personal details
Born	Sara Zimmerman Duterte May 31, 1978 Davao City, Philippines
Nationality	Filipino
Political party	Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod
Spouse(s)	Manases Carpio (m. 2007)
Relations	Paolo Duterte (brother) Sebastian Duterte (brother) Veronica Duterte (half-sister)
Children	2
Parents	Rodrigo Duterte (father) Elizabeth Zimmerman (mother)
Alma mater	San Pedro College
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Lawyer

Sara Duterte-Carpio (also known as Inday Sara by the Davaoeños; born Sara Zimmerman Duterte) is a Filipina lawyer, politician and the incumbent Mayor of Davao City. She also served as the city mayor from June 30, 2010 until June 30, 2013.^[1] Prior to her mayoral term, she has also served as vice mayor of Davao City from June 30, 2007 to June 30, 2010.

Political career

Duterte being interviewed by the ABS-CBN News Crew in March 12, 2009 when she was still Vice Mayor.

Duterte-Carpio is Davao City's first woman mayor and the youngest to have been elected to the position in the political history of Davao City after she switched roles with her father Rodrigo "Rody" Duterte in 2010-2013 as mayor and vice-mayor, respectively. Vowing to be “useful and to serve the country at all times,” Duterte, the vice-mayor in the last three years prior, assumed the post that her father Rodrigo held for over 20 years.^[2] Sara won over House Speaker Prospero Nograles, her father’s longtime political rival, in an overwhelming lead of 200,000 votes in the 2010 elections. Nograles earlier filed a protest at the Commission on Elections in Manila questioning the results, alleging a “conspiracy” of local poll officials with Duterte.^[3]

In her inaugural speech, Duterte-Carpio admitted wanting to be a pediatrician instead of a politician. “I never wanted to be a politician, but today I speak before you as city mayor,” she said. For over an hour, the front steps of City Hall was filled up with people wanting to have their pictures taken with Sara Duterte after she was sworn into office.^[4]

In 2011, Sara Duterte became controversial after she repeatedly punched a court sheriff for insisting on demolishing houses inside a contested property in Barangay Soliman in Davao City.^[5] In 2014, Inday Sara Duterte was caught by traffic enforcers over-speeding along Quimpo Boulevard. The mandatory speed limit along Quimpo Boulevard is 40 kilometer per hour (㎞/h) but her car was caught speeding at 57 ㎞/h. Sources stated that the traffic enforcers were at first hesitant upon seeing who they were apprehending but Sara insisted that they instead fine her and confiscate her driver’s license for violating the speed limit law.^[6][7]

Sara Duterte was also one of the nine elected governors of the Philippine Red Cross in 2014.^[8]

Initially hesitant and an opposition, but in October 2015, she shaved her head to convince her father to run for president in the 2016 Philippine general elections, despite the latter's reticence due to lack of campaign funds and political machinery.^[9][10]

She ran again for the mayoralty post for Davao City in the 2016 elections and won the position succeeding her father, now the current president, for the second time.

Personal life

Sara Duterte has been married since 2007 to her fellow lawyer Manases "Mans" R. Carpio, and she currently has two children: an adopted daughter nicknamed "Sharky" and a son named Mateo Lucas D. Carpio, nicknamed "Stingray".^[11] Manases is the nephew of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales.^[12]

On 18 April 2016, in connection with the rape remark made by her father Rodrigo on one of his presidential candidacy campaigns, Sara Duterte took to her Instagram account to admit that she was once a rape victim.^[13] However, Rodrigo Duterte dismissed his daughter's admission and referred to her as a "drama queen".^[14]

On 19 August 2016, Duterte announced amidst the Kadayawan Festival celebration in Davao City that she was on her seventh week of her pregnancy, carrying triplets.^[15] On 2 September, she suffered a miscarriage, losing two of her triplets.^[16]

References

1. "Mayor wants to be called 'Inday Sara'". SunStar. June 28, 2010.
2. "Who is Sara Duterte". Mabuhay City. July 5, 2011.
3. "Nograles subject Duterte's daughter". SunStar. July 10, 2010.
4. "Sara Duterte". MindaNews.com. July 10, 2010.
5. "Davao mayor Duterte punches sheriff over demolition of shanties". Inquirer.net. July 1, 2011.
6. "Ex-Davao mayor fined for speeding". Inquirer.net. January 15, 2014.
7. "Only in Davao: Ex-mayor Duterte caught for speeding". Rappler. January 15, 2014.
8. "Sara Duterte elected to Red Cross nat'l board". SunStar. January 28, 2014.
9. "Inday Sara shaves head in support of Duterte's presidential run". GMA News Online. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
10. Hegina, Aries Joseph (14 October 2015). "LOOK: Did Sara Duterte shave head to urge pa to run for president?". Inquirer. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
11. "It's a boy for Mayor Sara Duterte". SunStar. April 4, 2013.
12. Manases Carpio's father, Lucas (Davao City Regional Trial Court), is the brother of Conchita. "Morales inhibits self from Dutertes' cases". Manila Standard Today. May 20, 2016.
13. del Callar, Michaela (April 18, 2016). "Sara Duterte says she too was raped; not offended by dad Digong's 'joke'". GMA. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
14. Campbell, Charlie (April 20, 2016). "The Philippine Election Front-Runner Calls His Daughter a 'Drama Queen' for Saying She Was Raped". CNN. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
15. "Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio pregnant with triplets". Sun.Star. August 19, 2016. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
16. "Davao City Mayor Sara loses 2 of triplets". Sun.Star. September 8, 2016. Retrieved September 8, 2016.