Marcos calls relationship with Duterte family ‘complicated’

“It’s complicated.”

This was how President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. described his relationship with the Duterte family amid his continued alliance with Vice President Sara Duterte and her father’s, former President Rodrigo Duterte, and her siblings’ diatribes.

Although he was on the receiving end of his predecessor’s criticisms, Marcos said that his relationship with his running-mate in the 2022 elections had never changed.

“The one, of course, that I have the most contact with is Inday Sara and how we’re with each other during the campaign. After the election, it hasn’t really changed,” Marcos said at the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines’ 50th Anniversary Presidential Forum on Monday.

“That’s what she always says. I said, ‘Oh, are you all right na you’re in the middle of all of these?’ She says, ‘No, I’ll just work. Don’t worry about it. I’ll just work and work and work and work.’ That’s her attitude,'” the President shared. — DVM, GMA Integrated News