The word war between President Marcos and his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte continues, with the Chief Executive taking a jab at the former president’s possibly treasonous deal with China, but himself having to parry accusations of power lust.
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The President said he was trying to find out what the agreement “is all about” but was not getting straight answers. He said there are three questions that he wanted the Duterte camp to answer: Was there a secret agreement? What was in the secret agreement? And why was it kept secret?“I think by now we can see in fact that there was a secret agreement and what verifies that and what I think for me at least convinces me that there was in fact a secret agreement is the insistence of the Chinese government that there was a secret agreement,” he said.
Marcos earlier said he would meet with Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian to clarify the supposed secret deal between Duterte and Xi. “I hope, Mr. President, you are able to recall what happened to your father. See to it or you might find yourself in the same as your father,” he said. Duterte, however, argued that changing the economic provision of Constitution is the usual excuse of proponents to pave way for other amendments like term extension.
“It’s not about being pro-American or pro-China. What we want here is not to be engaged in something that has got nothing to do with us,” Mayor Duterte said. “Danger” heat index is expected in nine areas today amid the ongoing El Niño and dry season, according...
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