DAVAO CITY—Incoming Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday said she hoped that her push for the return of the mandatory Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) in schools would be included in the legislative priorities of the next administration and the 19th Congress.
Incoming Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday said she hoped that her push for the return of the mandatory Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) in schools would be included in the legislative priorities of the next administration and the 19th Congress.
Duterte said earlier she was eyeing the imposition of mandatory military service for all Filipinos 18 years old and above.
“The executive and legislative agenda will be decided by the President and Congress,” Duterte said in a press conference here.
“I hope it will be included since marami namang pending bills diyan sa Congress with regard to that. Sana masali siya,” she said.
Duterte has also said that her Lakas-CMD party is working to muster the majority number of House members in the upcoming 19th Congress.
Lakas-CMD president Ferdinand Martin Romualdez is the current House Majority Leader, and one of the contenders for Speakership when the 19th Congress opens in July.
In the run-up to the 2022 national elections, Duterte said she wanted the Philippines to have a mandatory military training and service similar to those of South Korea and Israel.