Sara Duterte-Carpio has been topping surveys on voters' preference for president. - Reuters
MANILA (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Sara Duterte-Carpio, who leads in surveys on voters' choice to replace her father as Philippine president, stuck to her guns on Friday (Oct 8), insisting that she is running for mayor of Davao city, not as the president.
"I am presenting myself to the Davaoenos as mayor for the third and last time in my life as a politician," Duterte-Carpio, 43, said in a statement released just hours before the end of the week-long registration for those running for president and some 18,000 political postsnext year.
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