Duterte’s daughter takes oath as Philippines vice president

Vice president-elect Sara Duterte, centre, raises her hands with Senate President Vicente Sotto III, left, and House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco during her proclamation at the House of Representatives (Aaron Favila/AP)

Sara Duterte, daughter of the outgoing populist president of the Philippines, took her oath as vice president on Sunday following a landslide electoral victory she clinched despite her father’s human rights record that saw thousands of drug suspects gunned down.

The inauguration in their southern hometown of Davao, where she is the outgoing mayor, comes two weeks before she assumes office on June 30 as specified in the constitution.