Published June 2, 2021, 8:20 AM
The opposition coalition 1Sambayan said it was a “joke of the worst kind” to see President Duterte run as vice president in the May 2022 polls.
In a statement posted on its official Facebook page, 1Sambayan convenor and lawyer Howard Calleja said it will be “laughable” to see the Chief Executive seek a lower post next year.
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“The alleged VP run of the President not only makes a mockery of the constitution but a joke of the worst kind. It is laughable and the height of impertinence to the Filipino people,” he added.
The possible candidacy of Duterte as vice president in 2022 was a “macrocosm of the Davao formula,” Calleja said, referring to the Dutertes’ hold of power in their hometown of Davao where the President and his family have held the mayor’s office since 1988.
Malacañang hit back at the opposition coalition for dismissing a possible vice presidential bid of President Duterte as a bad joke.
President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) According to Presidential spokesman Harry Roque, the opposition might end up looking foolish if the President deci
“The Filipino people should reject all those identified with dictatorship and authoritarianism, reject all those responsible for or who abet extrajudicial killings and whose mantra is ‘kill, kill, kill,’ and all those who violate human rights.”
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+ May 11, 2021 In some far-flung areas in Mindanao, some legitimate landowners abandoned their vast land because during harvest season their products are harvested by armed men. When they confronted the armed men on why they harvested their products when they are the legitimate and legal owners of the land, the armed men would simply answer, “Yes, this is your land, but the products are ours,” while at the same time pointing their guns at the landowners.
If you were the landowners, would you insist and assert your ownership at gunpoint? You can, but you can be killed anytime. So you just keep silent or to avoid trouble just leave the place. Landowners can only assert their ownership if they will also take up arms to fight the armed men taking their products. That is what we call “balance of terror.”