MANILA - The European Parliament should listen to more respectable sources instead of obtaining information from militant front organizations masquerading as legitimate civil society organizations and disgruntled members of the political opposition who do not represent the majority of the Philippine electorate. In a strongly-worded statement on Sunday, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) condemned what it called the misguided attempt of the European Parliament to interfere in the electoral process through a recent resolution that raised anew allegations of human rights violations and warned of possible trade sanctions. The DFA called the resolution "unfair, largely baseless, and presumptuous", prompted by European supporters of libelous journalists and bitter critics of the Duterte administration "because they miserably lost the previous election". "Far from what is presented in the resolution, the Philippines is a vibrant democracy that respects and protec
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