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De Lima: Duterte’s fourth SONA “insufferable”

(Eagle News)–Insufferable. This was how Senator Leila de Lima described President Rodrigo Duterte’s fourth State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 22. In a statement, De Lima said in the first place, one  does not fight corruption by “whining, complaining, and crying out to the plunderers to stop their corruption,” or by reinstating the death penalty. “Definitely, it is not achieved by converting the Coco Levy fund into pork barrel for the legislators’ consumption […]