Duterte, Robredo to work on rapport

Davao City — With their proclamation scheduled at mid-afternoon today, incoming President Rodrigo Roa Duterte gets the 100-percent support and cooperation of incoming vice president Leni Robredo whose appointment to a Cabinet post Duterte said he will give priority to over his friends. Robredo said she “will find ways to at least pay a courtesy visit to assure him that he has my support” probably in Davao City. “For me, it is but right to assure him that he has my 100 percent support and cooperation. That is my obligation to the country, not only to President Duterte. This is our obligation to the people because if we work together, it is the people who would benefit,” she added. Duterte resumed efforts to fill vacancies in his cabinet after he announced on Saturday that he has offered former national treasurer Leonor Briones the education portfolio and economist Benjamin Diokno a [...]