Palace to Sara: Traveling abroad won't solve PH problems
Malacañang takes a jab at Vice President Sara Duterte after she defended her foreign trips as a way of addressing the growing frustration of overseas Filipinos over the state of the country. In a press briefing on Aug. 12, 2025, Palace Press Officer Claire Castro said that traveling abroad would not solve the country’s problems. Duterte traveled to the Netherlands and Malaysia in May, Australia in June and then once again to the Netherlands and South Korea in July. She arrived in the country on July 28, the same day that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivered his fourth State of the Nation Address, which she skipped.
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00:00I am frustrated with the people who are working,
00:06and they are not working,
00:08and they are not working with the corruption.
00:12While the President is not working on the personal trip,
00:16they are not able to answer the trip
00:22to the people who are working on the problem.
00:26I don't have a job for the Vice President at the Constitution where he needs to travel for the President's office and to allow him to go to the President's office and go to the President's office.
00:43The first thing is that when the President's office is the Vice President, the President's office is not a job for the President's office.
00:54At siguro, dapat mas maging maliwanag lamang na ang personal trip ay ang personal agenda.
