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Vice President Sara Duterte in Pasig City on July 18, 2024. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File 

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Jauhn Etienne Villaruel

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/172377463280420240718-deped-duterte-angara-turnover-JV9871.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Vice President Sara Duterte in Pasig City on July 18, 2024. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File  "/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Vice President Sara Duterte in Pasig City on July 18, 2024. <em>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File </em></span><em> </em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — Vice President Sara Duterte said she was in favor of her brother Davao Rep. Paolo Duterte&#x27;s bill seeking to mandate random drug tests on all elected and appointed government officials, including the president.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/8/13/rep-duterte-files-bill-seeking-random-drug-tests-on-all-gov-t-officials-including-president-948">• Rep. Duterte files bill seeking random drug tests on all gov’t officials, including President</a></div><p>&quot;Yes of course. Unang-una dapat panigurado nating lahat na nasa tamang pag-iisip &#x27;yung ating mga public officials, kasama na ako doon,&quot; the Vice President said in an ambush interview Thursday.</p><p>(Yes, I support the bill. We need to make sure that our leaders are in their right minds. That includes me.)</p><p>Under Rep. Duterte&#x27;s House Bill 10744, the random drug test will use hair follicle samples. If an individual tests positive, a confirmatory urine drug test will be conducted. </p><p>The bill adds that candidates for electoral post are not precluded from undergoing voluntary hair follicle drug test within 90 days prior to the elections.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/7/12/marcos-dilg-task-force-to-tackle-illegal-drugs-pogos-2209">• Marcos: DILG task force to tackle illegal drugs, POGOs</a></div><p>The Vice President said she has agreed to some people&#x27;s request urging her to take a drug test and her team is ironing out how to make it happen.</p><p>&quot;Nababasa ko na yung panawagan ng mga tao at aayusin na lang natin kung kelan yun. Dapat may third party na kasali doon sa testing at hindi lang isa ang laboratory para sure tayong naba-validate yung results. Gawin natin yung drug test,&quot; Duterte said.</p><p>(I have read your pleas and we are already arranging it. There has to be a third party and multiple laboratories involved to make it more credible. Let&#x27;s do this.)</p><p>The Duterte siblings&#x27; father, former President Rodrigo Duterte, and his successor President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. have traded accusations of drug use. Neither man offered any evidence for their allegations.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/5/6/marcos-jr-laughs-off-pdea-document-linking-him-to-illegal-drugs-1957">• Marcos Jr. laughs off &#x27;PDEA document&#x27; linking him to illegal drugs</a></div><p>Vice President Duterte resigned from the Marcos Cabinet in June. Since then, she has skipped Marcos&#x27; State of the National Address and criticized the government&#x27;s flood management. </p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/8/9/vp-sara-duterte-says-she-ll-show-gov-t-officials-how-to-command-1711">VP Sara Duterte tells gov’t ‘how to command’ in addressing flood issues</a></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO: </strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/na_uoZKVxuk?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Vice President Sara Duterte said she has already agreed to requests urging her to take a drug test and her team is ironing out how to make it happen.</p>

Vice President Sara Duterte said she has already agreed to requests urging her to take a drug test and her team is ironing out how to make it happen.

Sara Duterte backs drug test on gov't officials: 'Para siguradong nasa tamang pag-iisip'

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Sara Duterte backs drug test on gov't officials: 'Para siguradong nasa tamang pag-iisip'

Jauhn Etienne Villaruel,

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Published Aug 16, 2024 10:27 AM PHT

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