'I wouldn't be president if I were corrupt like you,' Duterte tells senators

“I wouldn’t be President Duterte if I were corrupt like you.” President Duterte said to Sen. Richard Gordon who continued to hold hearings via the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee on the alleged anomalies in the admin’s procurement of COVID-19 supplies READ:

President Rodrigo Duterte listens to the presentation of his Cabinet members during the “Talk to the People” public briefing on Nov. 2, 2021

Speaking in his pre-recorded “Talk to the People” public briefing, Duterte took exception to the claims of certain senators that he has been “lawyering” for officials of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp., which served as a major contractor in the government’s procurement activities last year. Poltical pundits refer to the Senate as the chamber of “presidentiables”, given how close they are to the Palace in terms of hierchary and stature. Then-Davao City Mayor Duterte somewhat upended this notion when he won the presidential race via landslide in 2016.

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