Sara Duterte, the daughter of outgoing populist president of the Philippines, takes her oath as vice president during rites in her hometown in Davao city, southern Philippines, Sunday June 19, 2022. Duterte clinched a landslide electoral victory despite her father's human rights record that saw thousands of drug suspects gunned down. Also in photo are, from left; Supreme Court Justice Ramon Paul Hernando, her mother Elizabeth Zimmerman and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. - AP
DAVAO CITY, June 19 (Xinhua): Sara Duterte-Carpio was sworn into office as the 15th vice president of the Philippines on Sunday in her hometown in Davao City in the southern Philippines.
Wearing an emerald green chiffon Filipiniana gown, Duterte-Carpio took her oath of office as her mother, Elizabeth, and her father, President Rodrigo Duterte, standing next to her, watched.
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