August 22, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte has insisted that she was not a “full failure” throughout her stint as schooling secretary.
Duterte additionally hit again at President Marcos, claiming that she resigned from the publish as he “smelled like liquor at 10:30 within the morning.”
Graft and corruption are among the many prices filed in opposition to the Vice President in her impeachment case, stemming from alleged misuse of schooling funds for confidential and intelligence actions which are troublesome to audit.
“He smelled like liquor… That’s the place I confirmed my choice to resign so I’m not a failure. Perhaps, the failure is the one who smelled like liquor as early as 10:30 a.m.,” Duterte stated in an interview in The Hague, Netherlands.
“If I needed to guess what sort of liquor (he drank), whiskey. However I didn’t see him consuming whiskey. I noticed him consuming champagne. However he smelled like liquor at 10:30 within the morning,” she added.
Defending her comment that Philippine schooling stays caught in “paper and pencil,” Duterte maintained that “we’re actually behind in our schooling system in comparison with extra developed nations around the globe.”
Failure
Malacañang yesterday stood by its comment that Duterte was a “full failure” as schooling secretary and chided her for supposedly resorting to propaganda to carry down Marcos and pursue her aim to change into president.
Duterte had admitted that she couldn’t evaluation the Matatag primary schooling curriculum since she didn’t know something about it, Presidential Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro recalled.
“Data will converse for themselves. She admitted in one in every of her talking engagements that she had no experience in formulating the Matatag curriculum since she shouldn’t be from the schooling sector,” Castro stated, referring to Duterte’s speech on the launching of the curriculum on Aug. 10, 2023.
Castro stated Duterte is a supply of “pretend information” spreading tales such because the altered Beverly Hills police report linking First Woman Liza Marcos to the loss of life of enterprise government Paolo Tantoco final March.
“All of her tales are supposed to malign the President as a result of she needs him to step down from the publish so she will change into president. A egocentric aim,” Castro stated.
Sara informed: Don’t lie
Duterte ought to cease protecting herself up by mendacity in regards to the nationwide price range, Manila Rep. Rolando Valeriano stated yesterday.
“The Vice President has low regard in Congress when she claimed that solely two or some folks resolve the nationwide price range. The entire Congress is the one approving the price range,” Valeriano, chairman of the Home committee on public order and security, stated.
“It appears that evidently the Vice President is spreading lies once more. Lies to deflect her personal incompetence,” he added.
Duterte resigned as schooling secretary in July 2024, amid mounting controversies over her management and questions on her use of confidential funds.
Throughout her two-year stint as DepEd chief, Duterte drew mounting criticism for the company’s dismal efficiency marked by low price range utilization, poor studying outcomes and failure to deal with the schooling disaster.