MALACAÑANG said Monday it was Vice President Sara Duterte who abandoned the government, disputing her claims that the administration turned its back on the Office of the Vice President (OVP).

"That is what they want to convey — that the Office of the Vice President and the vice president herself are seemingly pitiful," Palace Press Officer and Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Undersecretary Claire Castro said in a briefing in Filipino.

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