DAVAO CITY – Winning mayoralty candidate Sara Z. Duterte-Carpio said she will focus her administration among others in finding investors to come to this city.

Duterte-Carpio, who garnered a big lead in the race for city mayor with almost 99 percent of votes canvassed, said the Davao City Investment and Promotion Center (DCIPC) must go out and find the investors to come to the city.

Her opponent is former House Speaker Prospero Nograles while her father Mayor Rodrigo Duterte placed a big margin against opponent Benjamin de Guzman.

Both candidates are running under Hugpong Sa Tawong Lungsod that supports the Liberal Party headed by leading presidential bet Noynoy Aquino.

Duterte is the first lady mayor of this city who served for three years as the vice mayor here.

She said they need to come up with activities and new strategies to support these programs for the next three years.

“We will empower and at the same demand the division chiefs of the Davao City government to come up with projects that would address the needs of the people as they might find the difference,” she said.

Duterte is replacing Mayor Rodrigo Duterte as the city’s chief executive while the latter will be the vice mayor.

For 21 years that her father headed this city, she said there will be new things that they will adopt as far as the operations of the city government are concerned.

She said they need to put their acts together on investments, tourism, employment, livelihood, entrepreneurship as these will help the city’s economy even as she said that peace and order already is a given as basic for development.

It was learned that this city has been lately chosen by the business sector as the preferred area for investments.

It is also rated as among the top five cities in the country for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) investments.

Duterte, however, stressed that they should not wait for them to come to the city, they must look for the investors.

“I do not promise anything. I will work hard, be sincere and always there for the people,” she said.