DAVAO CITY Mayor Rodrigo Duterte threatened to campaign against whoever the administration will field in next year’s elections if the Liberal Party (LP) includes Justice Secretary Leila de Lima in its senatorial ticket.

The tough-talking mayor, who is also rumored be running for higher office, was reacting to de Lima’s statement that she would not run in the same ticket with Duterte as “a matter of principle.”

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