Duterte bares daughter ‘in control,’ admits he’s ‘done’

February 25, 2019 admin second headline

Credit to Author: RALPH VILLANUEVA| Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 01:50:08 +0000

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte admitted on Monday that it was now his daughter, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, who was “orchestrating” politics in the country and that he was “done.”

In a speech during the first national assembly of the Liga ng mga Barangay sa Pilipinas at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City, Duterte said he “did not” and “could not control his daughter” as she was “really hard to deal with.”

She said that if the younger Duterte would win in 2022, the International Criminal Court would not be allowed to enter the country and arrest her father who was being accused of human rights violations for his war against illegal drugs.

In a statement, Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo said the claim of Tordesillas was “nonsensical.”

He also called the journalist “biased” and a “vocal sympathizer” of one of Duterte’s staunchest critics, Senator Antonio Trillanes 4th.

“The opinion of Ms. Tordesillas, is nonsensical. The ICC has no jurisdiction over [Duterte], and for that matter any Filipino citizen,” Panelo said.

“It is a no brainer that a biased journalist or columnist like Ms. Tordesillas would regularly come up with conjectures inimical to the President. That is what we call black propaganda,” he said.

Panelo said, however, that Malacanang “respects” freedom of expression.

“His record of not filing any libel case against any member of the media in his more than forty years as a public servant is res ipsa loquitur (the thing speaks for itself),” the spokesman said.

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