Past witching hour at the House of Representatives early Saturday, tensions flared up as Sara Duterte's chief of staff, Undersecretary Zuleika Lopez, fell seriously ill after the House of Representatives ordered her transfer to the Women's Correctional Facility.
She was initially rushed to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City but was later moved to St. Luke's Medical Center with her boss, the defiant VP Sara, caught in a confrontation with the police to make sure that her aide would be transferred to St. Luke's rather than to the correctional facility.
She was seen shouting at policemen, a grim reminder of the 2011 incident when she punched a court sheriff in Davao.
Earlier on Friday evening, VP Sara wanted to spend the night with Lopez at the House detention facility but was not allowed to. She then decided to spend the night in the office of her brother, Davao City 1st District Rep. Paolo Duterte.
Lopez was cited in contempt for requesting the Commission on Audit to ignore a subpoena from the House directing it to submit its audit reports on the use of confidential funds in 2022 and 2023.
Once again, we have become unwitting witnesses to VP Sara's bloated sense of entitlement, perhaps a result of being used to always getting her way in Davao.
But wait, there's more.
As if all this drama weren't enough, VP Sara, in a press briefing via Zoom on Friday night, also unleashed an utterly disturbing revelation.
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