Vice President Ma. Leonor Robredo is a heartbeat away from the presidency but she says she does not mind not being designated as the caretaker when President Rodrigo Duterte is abroad.

Robredo made the response when asked about the President’s decision naming Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea to be the caretaker of the country in the two instances that Duterte was out of the country—during an Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit in Laos and a visit to Indonesia last month.

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