Sara Duterte denies Australia was asked to host her father after ICC release

View from Manila: Where in the world is Vice President Sara Duterte?

MANILA, Philippines — In the list of key moments caught on video in Vice President Sara Duterte’s political career, several immediately come to mind.  The first is the news video of her from 2011, a relatively new mayor at 33, punching a sheriff who dared defy a request from her to stay the implementation of an eviction notice on an informal settlers community. Years later, she’d call it a “turning point” in her political career and a “constant …

Sara Duterte denies Australia was asked to host her father after ICC release

Vice President Sara Duterte said her father’s lawyers had not asked Australia to take in her father, ex-President Rodrigo Duterte, should his petition for interim release from an International Criminal Court (ICC) detention facility in The Hague, the Netherlands, be granted. Duterte was reacting to a supposed email from Australia’s foreign affairs and trade department saying that the Australian government would not agreed to “host” her father if…

‘We never asked to go to Australia’ – Duterte

VICE President Sara Duterte said the defense team of her father, former president Rodrigo Duterte, never reached out to Australia to host his interim release following reports that the Australian government has turned him down.“This has never been discussed with the Australian government. There was never an application with the Australian government, and there is no intent as well to apply for interim release with the Australian government,” Dut…