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VP Sara won't ask Marcos for help on dad Rodrigo’s interim release
Vice President Sara Duterte stated she will not ask President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for assistance regarding her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte's, interim release.
The ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejected the Defense's interim release bid, but lawyer Nicholas Kaufman has filed an appeal.
VP Duterte referred to the transfer of her father to the International Criminal Court as a "government kidnapping" of a Filipino within the country.
She believes that President Marcos Jr.'s decision to approve the transfer was irreversible and something he should not have done.
The administration maintains the position that the government was obligated to help Interpol serve the ICC warrant on former president Duterte.
VP Duterte again declined to identify the third country that might host her father if granted interim release, saying only that the unnamed state cooperated on the Defense's appeal.
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