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(Eagle News)–The Palace on Sunday, Oct. 7, thanked the public for the very good satisfaction rating it gave the Duterte administration, based on a Social Weather Stations survey. “As the survey shows, in what Social Weather Stations calls its Governance Report Card, of the 14 specific subjects rated, we received the lowest rating in fighting inflation. Nonetheless, public satisfaction remains “very good” at +50 during the time when our people are feeling the hit of […]
(Eagle News)–“Sayang.” Senator Koko Pimentel said it would be a waste if Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque would decide not to run for a Senate seat in 2019. In a radio interview, Pimentel noted that Roque’s expertise as a lawyer was international law. As such, he said Roque could be nominated as the new chair of the Senate committee on foreign relations, with incumbent chair Senator Loren Legarda graduating soon. “Eksaktong eksakto sana kasi dumadami na […]
(Eagle News)–Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Saturday, Oct. 6, reiterated the government was exerting all efforts to address the rising prices in goods. Roque made the statement after the Philippine Statistics Authority reported inflation had reached 6.7 percent in September. “President Duterte signed Administrative Order (AO) No. 13 last month to streamline procedures on the importation of agricultural products, including rice,” Roque said. He said this will “lower the price of basic food products for […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte urged Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque to not run for a Senate seat in 2019, and offered him another job instead. In a speech before Philippine Military Academy alumni on Thursday, Oct. 4, Duterte said Roque will, after all, not win because the military does not like him. In a press conference on Friday, Oct. 5, Roque confirmed Duterte indeed offered him a job in government, but he did not […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said he needed the weekend to think about whether he would stay in his current position in the government. Roque issued the statement in a press conference on Friday, Oct. 5, after some people accused him of lying when he said the President merely took a day off on Wednesday, prompting him to skip a Philippine Amusement Gaming Corp. event in the Palace. Roque denied he lied, saying […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte was not at the Philippine Amusement Gaming Corp. event in Malacanang on Wednesday, Oct. 3, because he decided to rest instead. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the statement, effectively belying rumors the President had been hospitalized on that day. According to Roque, the President stayed at Bahay Pangarap. “He had a schedule almost every day. He did not really have a day off. So the President decided to have […]
(Eagle News) — “Lagot silang lahat kay Mocha Uson.” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque had this to say following her resignation as assistant secretary at the Presidential Communications Operations Office. “I wish her the best. I will miss her but she did make it clear na ipagpapatuloy po niya ang advocacy,” Roque said, noting that he was surprised by her move. Nonetheless, he said “I wish the office well.” “We’re hoping that things happen for a […]
By Vic Somintac Eagle News Service “Let us stop the drama by presscon and allow the legal process to take its course.” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque had this to say after the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150 ordered Senator Antonio Trillanes IV arrested and for a hold departure order to be issued against him. According to Roque, the court after all “has spoken.” “As the President has said, we will respect the decision of […]
(Eagle News)–Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Tuesday, Sept. 25, said he would file a case against outgoing National Food Authority (NFA) administrator Jason Aquino for “mak(ing) a mess out of the rice market” if no one else does. “He (Aquino) contributed to the problem of inflation. He should be held liable. If no one files, I will,” Roque said in a television interview. For this, Roque cited a report from the Commission on Audit that said […]
(Eagle News)– The Palace on Thursday, Sept. 13, shrugged off Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s remark President Rodrigo Duterte could face an impeachment complaint for his revelation a foreign country supplied him with proof there was a conspiracy to oust him as president. ‘Yung kasama niya na laging nagfa-file ng impeachment complaint, wala naman nangyayari..So let him file another impeachment complaint. Wala rin namang mangyayari diyan kasi wala naman talagang saysay,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Friday, Aug. 24, expressed confidence the impeachment complaints filed against the seven Supreme Court justices who voted for the ouster of Maria Lourdes Sereno as Chief Justice will be dismissed. “Naniniwala po kami na walang merito iyan at inaasahan namin na mababasura kaagad iyan ng Committee on Justice,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in an interview over radio dzRH. According to Roque, it was the SC’s mandate to act […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Monday, Aug. 20, defended the police’s arrest of three lawyers in a Makati bar raid for alleged obstruction of justice and intimidation. According to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, a lawyer himself, lawyers Lenie Rocel Rocha, Jan Vincent Soliven, and Romulo Bernard Alarkon needed a refresher course in criminal law. In the first place, he said “lawyers have absolutely no involvement in an ongoing police investigation.” “Their role is when […]
