President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. denied grooming eldest son Ilocos Norte Rep. Sandro Marcos to be the next president.

“We’re not grooming him for anything. He is grooming himself. He has decided on this career in politics and he will handle it the way he does,” he said in an interview on Monday, Jan 23.

Marcos also clarified that there were no plans of putting his son in the chief executive position.

“There is not some long-range plan that one day, Sandro is going to be president,” he said.

His son will not take the rumor seriously as he has a lot of other work to do calling the plan for the presidency premature, according to the President.

“Actually, he (Sandro) will laugh in your face if you tell him that…He has a work pa in Ilocos Norte, even talk of the presidency would be so, so premature. And it’s not something that we plan,” he added.

Sandro's participation in the President's recent foreign business trip was because of his part in the controversial Maharlika Investment Fund.

“The reason he accompanies us is because he is an author of the Maharlika fund bill,” Marcos said as his son often personally discusses the bill in front of foreign leaders.