Sara Duterte

Sara Zimmerman Duterte-Carpio (, ; born May 31, 1978), commonly known as Inday Sara, is a Filipino lawyer and politician who is the 15th and current vice president of the Philippines.

She is the third female vice president, the third vice president to come from Mindanao, and the youngest vice president in Philippine history.

Duterte is also the secretary of education, holding the post in a concurrent capacity.

Sara Zimmerman Duterte was born in Davao City on May 31, 1978, the second child to then-lawyer later president Rodrigo Duterte and flight attendant Elizabeth Zimmerman.

Her maternal grandfather was Jewish, having fled to the Philippines from Nazi Germany.

She has spoken of her "love-hate relationship" with her father when she was a student due to her disapproval for his womanizing tendencies and late night habits.

Despite this, Rodrigo considered Sara to be his favorite child, and placed high value on the education she and her brothers received.

She was the first woman to hold the chairpersonship and the first to be appointed from the government sector since the reorganization of the council in 1986.

Duterte attended San Pedro College, majoring in BS Respiratory Therapy, and graduated in 1999; in her inaugural speech as mayor of Davao City, Duterte said she originally wanted to be a pediatrician instead of a politician.

Their ticket won in a landslide victory, becoming the first running mate pair to win together since 2004 and the first to be elected by a majority since the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1986.

Duterte became the vice president on June 30, 2022, and was inaugurated 11 days earlier in Davao City.

She later took up a law degree from San Beda College but transferred to the San Sebastian College – Recoletos, where she graduated in May 2005.

In 2005, Duterte passed the Philippine Bar Examination.

She then worked for a few months as a court attorney at the office of Supreme Court Associate Justice Romeo Callejo Sr..

Before being elected as mayor of Davao City, Duterte served as vice mayor of Davao City.

She was also Davao City's vice mayor from 2007 to 2010.

Duterte graduated from San Pedro College, initially aiming to pursue a medical career, before taking up a law degree initially from San Beda College but graduated in San Sebastian College – Recoletos.

She was elected as Davao City's vice mayor in 2007, before eventually being elected as the city's mayor from 2010 until 2013, succeeding her father and becoming the youngest and the first female mayor of the city.

She was elected in 2007, succeeding Luis Bonguyan.

She also concurrently served as a regional officer of the National Movement of Young Legislators from 2007 to 2010.

As vice mayor, her landmark project was 'Inday Para sa Barangay', a whole-of-government approach servicing yearly in each of the city's barangays.

It was later called the Caravan of Government Services when she transferred it to the Office of the City Mayor.

She served under her father, then-mayor Rodrigo Duterte, for one term until 2010.

In 2010, Duterte was elected mayor, becoming the first female mayor of the city, as well as being the youngest to have been elected, as she turned 32 years old just weeks after being proclaimed winner.

She won over House Speaker Prospero Nograles, her father's political rival, in a lead of 200,000 votes in the 2010 elections.

Nograles earlier filed a protest at the Commission on Elections in Manila questioning the results, stating that there was a conspiracy of local poll officials.

Vowing to be "useful and to serve the country at all times", she assumed the post that her father Rodrigo held for over 20 years.

During her first term, she also served as officer in the National Executive Board of the League of Cities Philippines from 2010 to 2013.

On December 2, 2010, President Benigno Aquino III appointed her as Chairperson of the Regional Development Council (RDC) Region XI.

As chairperson, she saw the growth of Davao Region’s Gross Regional Domestic Product from 3.9 percent in 2011 to 7.1 percent in 2012.

On July 1, 2011, Duterte gained national attention when she punched Abe Andres, a Davao City Regional Trial Court sheriff, over the demolition of shanties in Barangay Kapitan Tomas Monteverde Sr., Agdao, Davao City.

She had earlier asked the court and the demolition team to delay the demolition but Andres refused, making her furious.

On July 11, Sheriffs Confederation of the Philippines Inc. filed a complaint against Duterte in connection to the incident.

On June 28, 2012, almost a year after the incident, she publicly apologized to Andres and his family.

Duterte decided not to seek re-election in 2013 to give way to her father Rodrigo.

A daughter of 16th president Rodrigo Duterte, she previously served as the mayor of Davao City from 2016 to 2022, and from 2010 to 2013.

After her first term ended, she took a brief hiatus, returning to politics in 2016 after being elected again as Davao City mayor and was reelected in 2019.

During her second stint as mayor, she initiated the Byaheng DO30 and Peace 911 programs in the city, as well as overseeing the city government's COVID-19 pandemic response.

Duterte was also an influential figure in national politics during her father's presidency, forming alliances with several political parties and playing a key role in the ouster of Pantaleon Alvarez as the Speaker of the House of Representatives in 2018.

Duterte ran for the vice presidency in 2022 under Lakas–CMD, becoming the running mate of Bongbong Marcos from the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas under the UniTeam Alliance.