It would be a form of "poetic justice" for Vice President Leni Robredo should she and President Rodrigo Duterte switch posts in 2022.
While Robredo has yet to decide on whether she would heed calls to run for president, she assured Duterte that if they were in each other's shoes, she wouldn't treat him the way he did to her. Duterte had said that he was open to running for vice president next year.
"Very, very seriously, ako, I will not treat him the way he treated me. Kasi, I don't think it is to the best interest of the people na 'yung Presidente at tsaka Vice President nag-aaway," she said in an interview on ANC on Tuesday night.
"Kung tatakbo siya at mananalo siya, sana huwag niyang maranasan ang naranasan ko bilang vice president," she added.
Robredo, the head of the opposition, is a common target of President Duterte's tirades in his speeches. The two officials, coming from opposing sides of the political fence, have been at odds for most of their term.
Robredo only had a short stint at Duterte's Cabinet as head of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council for around six months. In 2019, she was assigned by the President to co-chair his inter-agency committee on anti-illegal drugs until the end of his term in 2022.
Robredo, however, was fired from the post barely a month after her assignment.