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When viewed together, the legal stalling at The Hague and the coordinated political pressure at home reveal a strategy designed not only to shield the former president from accountability. The Duterte camp appears to be buying time as part of a broader gambit aimed at weakening the Marcos administration and clearing space for a Sara Duterte takeover before the ICC can weigh the evidence against her father.
While Marcos appears sincere in getting to the bottom of the trillion-peso flood control scandal, his part in approving the questionable insertions in the budget and the release of funds for projects that turned out to be inexistent cannot be ignored. Perhaps the time is ripe for the president to acknowledge negligence and be forthright in admitting his faults.
Several videos on YouTube and Facebook are claiming that the International Criminal Court has granted former president Rodrigo Duterte interim release. This is false.
How will the remaining three years be positively different for a majority of Filipinos struggling to cope not only with relentlessly rising prices but also with incompetent leadership at various levels of public service?
Former executive secretary Vic Rodriguez claimed with no basis that he ordered the seizure of illegally imported sugar in 2022.
Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra said on July 29 that the Philippine government will "not get in the way" of the ICC's interview of the five former and current high-ranking police officials tagged as suspects in the Duterte administration's drug war.
Sa pagpuri sa economic policies ng administrasyong Marcos, mali ang mga nasabing statistics ni Larry Gadon tungkol sa kahirapan, poverty, trabaho sa bansa, at paglago ng GDP.
In praising the Marcos administration's economic policies, Larry Gadon erred in citing figures on poverty, employment and GDP growth rates.
Marcos' endorsement of the proposal to focus only on economic Cha-cha did not help the Cha-cha advocacy.
Paano ba makaaapekto sa mga manggagawa ang pagbabalak na buksan ang advertising industry sa foreign ownership? Sasagutin 'yan sa talakayan sa Cha-cha ng VERA Files reporters.
