President Rodrigo Duterte is not after perpetuating himself in power even if he named his daughter, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, as his possible successor, a Palace official said on Monday.

Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella noted that such pronouncement from the President over the weekend in his hometown of Davao was unofficial.

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