Time to hold Duterte accountable now
Supertyphoon Yolanda battered Benigno Aquino III’s vaunted reputation before the world as a competent Philippine president.
Supertyphoon Yolanda battered Benigno Aquino III’s vaunted reputation before the world as a competent Philippine president.
Are there secrets in the Duterte SALN? Ombudsman Samuel Martires’ Memorandum Circular 1 restricting public access to Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth applies retroactively to the president. Coming soon is a script qualified for Ripley’s Believe It or Not where SALNs will again play a major role: while the president’s 2018 and 2019 SALNs remain publicly undisclosed, Solicitor General Jose Calida has appealed to the Supreme Court to release justice Marvic Leonen’s SALN that many read as groundwork for a quo warranto case against the high court’s third most senior justice. As in the Sereno ouster, it appears to be a Calida-Larry Gadon plot.
Kinontra ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang kanyang top diplomat nang pinanindigan niya ang makasaysayang tagumpay ng Pilipinas sa arbitration laban sa China sa pinagtatalunan sa South China Sea sa kanyang kauna-unahang pagsasalita sa United Nations (UN) General Assembly (GA) noong Set. 22.
President Rodrigo Duterte contradicted his top diplomat when he affirmed the Philippines’ historic arbitral victory against China on the South China Sea dispute during his debut appearance at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly (GA) on Sept. 22.
President Rodrigo Duterte reminded global leaders in his first-ever appearance at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that access for both poor and rich countries to a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine must be considered a “matter of public policy” and crucial in the global recovery from the pandemic.
Earl Parreño’s latest book, a political biography of Rodrigo Duterte, enjoyed a brief burst of publicity when it came out in late 2019. There were book launches and TV talk shows. Now, people seem to be turning to it for insights into the President’s psyche.
About 4 p.m. Monday (Aug. 17), my friend, Marilyn Robles, was disturbed to hear DZRH’s Deo Macalmatrying to verify reports that President Duterte was in Perpetual Hospital.
It recycled a two-year old TIME magazine article.
There are no records of any world leader saying such a thing.
The survey is nearly three years old.