Vice President Sara Duterte says she sees nothing wrong with her recent visits to detained lawmakers and a former official. Duterte defended her decision to visit Senator Rodante Marcoleta, Senator Jinggoy Estrada, and former House lawmaker Mike Defensor while they are held at the Quezon City Jail in Payatas. In statements reported by multiple outlets, she says that visiting persons deprived of liberty is not inherently improper, noting that she personally knows them and considers them friends. Duterte made the remarks to reporters in Davao City after attending a Thanksgiving Mass for the Kadayawan Festival. She also framed her visits as being consistent with her relationship to the detainees, rather than an endorsement of their cases. The comments respond to public questions about the propriety of high-ranking officials visiting individuals who are in detention. Both sources describe Duterte’s position as a straightforward justification for her visits and indicate that she does not view the activity as problematic.