What has endeared Inday Sara to the Filipino public

VICE President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte-Carpio turns 46 today, having been born on May 31, 1978 to Rodrigo Roa Duterte and Elizabeth Abellana Zimmerman.

The middle child and only girl of three siblings, "Inday Sara" — as she is popularly known in her household and school, and until she ran for the second highest elective post in the land and won it via landslide vote in 2022 — hones her sociopolitical and leadership skills in the Duterte tradition of working in government and serving the public since way back to her paternal grandfather, Vicente Duterte, who served as provincial governor of Davao del Sur. She is reputed to be of Jewish descent from the side of her maternal grandfather.