President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. reiterated his openness to mending ties with Vice President Sara Duterte and her family, but emphasized that
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. during his bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the recently concluded ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Marcos pushed back against suggestions that reconciliation efforts between him and the Dutertes should come with specific terms.“That’s not how reconciliation works. You don’t put conditions to reconcile,” Marcos told members of the Philippine media delegation on Tuesday. “If you’re sincere and want to reconcile, let’s sit down and talk.
“If you say, ‘I won’t talk to you unless you give me this, this, and this’—then it won’t solve anything. That’s not reconciliation. That’s not even negotiation. That’s demanding,” he said. “If it becomes a tit-for-tat—‘I’ll do this if you do that’—then the conversation’s already over.”
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