MANILA -- Sara Duterte, the daughter of the Philippine president and front-runner to succeed him, missed Friday's filing deadline to register her candidacy for next year's presidential election.
However, this does not rule her out from joining the race later because election commission rules allow for substitutions of party candidates until mid-November. She has a precedent in her father, Rodrigo, who also submitted his candidacy in 2015 past the filing deadline.
