After Sara thanks BBM over renewed relationship father, Marcos says:“Glad I could help”

Photo Courtesy: Bongbong Marcos, Rody Duterte

AFTER Vice President Sara Duterte “thanked” President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., for her renewed relationship with her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte, the current chief executive answered back, saying, “Glad I could help.”

While the two top leaders have not been seeing eye-to-eye recently, Palace Press Officer Undersecretary Atty. Claire Castro said that she had asked for a response from Marcos with regards to the Vice President’s recent statement, where she said that she is giving credit to the President as there had been “forgiveness” between her and her father.

“This really is ironic, but I have to thank Bongbong Marcos because there was forgiveness between me and [former President Duterte] for all that has happened in our lives,” the vice president said.

But Castro, for her part, said that the vice president should thank her father.

”Mas maganda po siguro kung magpasalamat muna si VP Sara sa kanyang ama mismo, kay dating Pangulong Duterte, dahil kung siya man po ay nagkaroon ng pagkakataon at nagkaroon ng oras kasama ang kanyang ama ay dahil po ito sa kasong EJK,” Castro said.

”Kung hindi po naganap at nagawa ang sinasabing mga aksyon patungkol sa war on drugs at walang nag-complaint, hindi naman din sila magkakaroon ng pagkakataon na makapunta sa The Hague, so mas maganda pasalamatan niya muna po, dahil sa ginawa ng kanyang ama, sa mga inerereklamo sa kanya, iyon po ang naging cause kung bakit sila nasa The Hague,” she added.

The former president is currently facing trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) over alleged crimes against humanity.

He was arrested despite earlier pronouncements by the Marcos administration that it won’t cooperate with the international body.

Sara added she has a “father-daughter relationship now” with the former president, and that she cannot speak with him about legal matters about his ICC case.