President Rodrigo Duterte vowed during his State of the Nation Address (Sona) to a joint session of Congress and the Filipino people on Monday to pursue his war on drugs, saying it would be as “relentless and chilling” as before.
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Malacañang gave an assurance that the government was putting measures in place to tame inflation following results of a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showing more Filipinos now rating themselves as poor.
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President Rodrigo Duterte visited the Cardinal Santos Medical Center in San Juan City on Sunday, the eve of his third State of the Nation Address (Sona). But presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said there was nothing to worry about the President’s health.
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On Saturday night, two days before the third State of the Nation Address (Sona) of President Rodrigo Duterte, Malacañang Palace released a 68-page report detailing his administration’s achievements for the past year.
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Malacañang on Monday promised to double down on an information campaign to counter worsening public rejection of its proposal to amend the Constitution for a shift to federalism. Refusing to be disheartened by the Pulse Asia poll finding that 67 percent of Filipinos opposed moves to amend the Constitution, the Palace picked through the survey […]
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Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV said on Sunday that he didn’t mind having a smaller security detail, saying that he never complained about it. “Just to be clear: I never complained about the pullout of my government security detail. I can always adjust to the situation,” Trillanes said in a statement. “It was merely raised as a public concern in social media and I was asked by the media to confirm the matter.”
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Malacañang pointed to graft cases filed against 17 local officials in Boracay as among those that showed progress in the Duterte administration’s anticorruption campaign.
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President Rodrigo Duterte wants voters to elect a ‘younger’ new leader to oversee the transition of the government into the proposed federal system, Malacañang said on Monday.
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Read moreThe government has decided to ignore communist leader Jose Maria Sison since he has become “completely irrelevant” with the peace talks now on hold. Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque revealed the latest “policy” of not commenting on Sison’s statements to avoid unnecessarily riding on the propaganda of the rebel group. “It will now be a policy. […]
Read moreThe Human Rights Watch’s description of President Duterte’s second year in office as a human rights calamity was simply ridiculous, Malacañang said yesterday. Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque asserted that the government actually continues to uphold and protect civil liberties, from keeping the people safe from crimes and drugs to providing better social services. “Kalokohan po […]
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