Vice President Sara Duterte claims she and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. were never friends and only interacted during their campaign as running mates.
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00:00Vice President Sara Duterte claims she and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. were never friends
00:06and only interacted during their campaign as running mates.
00:09This, after Duterte claimed to be the target of political attacks under the Marcos administration.
00:15We didn't really talk about it.
00:18We weren't friends at first.
00:21We met because we were running mates.
00:25The UniTeam alliance catapulted Marcos and Duterte to the country's top posts
00:29in a landslide victory in 2022.
00:32Unlike most presidential and vice presidential tandems in recent history,
00:36the two had no real personal ties.
00:38Marcos and Duterte struggled to keep the facade of a happy partnership
00:42as Duterte's infighting with Marcos' allies spilled into public view.
00:46In June, Duterte resigned from the Marcos cabinet signaling the end of the UniTeam alliance.
00:52Asked whether she regrets being part of the UniTeam, she says,
00:56Never again.