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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday named the three people he said were behind the ouster plot against him. “Look, prangka tayo..They want me ousted. Who’s behind it? Itong si Trillanes, sundalo mabuti pang security guard to, and his ilk,” Duterte said, referring to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. Aside from being a critic of Duterte and his policies, Trillanes is a member of the Magdalo group that has filed an impeachment complaint against […]
(Eagle News) — Apologize. The Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption has asked Vice President Leni Robredo to issue an apology for what it said were her “treacherous and unjust statements” in a video shown to the international community recently. In a letter sent to her office on Tuesday, Dante Jimenez, VACC president and founding chair, said Robredo should apologize for her messages that “sham(ed) the country before the international community” to “forestall any legal action that may be taken against” her. […]
(Eagle News) — Breaking her silence for the first time after she came under fire for her antidrug war video message shown to the international community, Vice President Leni Robredo indirectly denied on Thursday she had plans of seizing the presidency. “Ang pagpapahayag ng pangontra sa mga polisiya ng administrasyon ay hindi po yun nangangahulugan na gusto nating agawin ang posisyon. Wala po tayong ganung pangarap,” she said, noting that she only wanted to hear grievances. Robredo […]
(Eagle News) — Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo on Wednesday said that statements such as Vice President Leni Robredo’s make it difficult for her office to “sell the Philippines” to potential tourists. “The Philippines is now becoming an alternate destination in Asia and Europe. Yung mga statement na ganun, it really…Nahihirapan kami i-sell ang Philippines,” she said in a press conference in the Mandarin Oriental in Bangkok, Thailand, where she and several other government officials accompanied President Rodrigo Duterte on a 3-day official visit. […]
(Eagle News) — The Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption lashed out at Vice President Leni Robredo on Monday, saying she should apologize for her “despicable act of treachery.” The independent anticrime watchdog was referring to Robredo’s issuance of a video statement before the international community, which was released online on March 13. In the 6-minute video published by Time.com last week, Robredo was seen dishing out criticisms of Duterte’s drug war, saying police were so abusive they beat […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday welcomed the impeachment complaint filed against him on Thursday, saying “this (was) a democracy.” “Impeachment? If that is part of my destiny, it’s my destiny to go…Wala sa akin yang impeachment, impeachment. I go by the rules of destiny,” he added during a press conference at the Davao International Airport prior to his departure for Myanmar, and later for Thailand, on official visits. Duterte was referring to […]
(Eagle News) – Senator Alan Peter Cayetano said that drug lords have started financing destabilization plans against President Rodrigo Duterte, and are allegedly conspiring with political personalities who also want to oust the President. Cayetano revealed this in a recent press conference where he also cited how certain politicians against President Duterte are all citing the same lines to discredit the Duterte administration in the eyes of the international community. He said these […]
(Eagle News) – The Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), affirmed its earlier declaration that the electoral protest of former senator and then vice-presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos was “sufficient in form and substance.” With this decision, the PET junked the poll protest case filed by Marcos’ rival, Vice-President Leni Robredo, and would likely proceed to recount the votes cast in the very controversial and hotly contested May 2016 vice-presidential race. […]
(Eagle News) — In the latest Pulse Asia Survey released on Monday, January 9, Vice President Leni Robredo’s trust rating went down by 7 percent for the last quarter of 2016, dipping to 58 percent from the previous quarter’s 65 percent. The survey fieldwork was conducted from December 6 to 11, 2016 using face-to-face interviews among the 1,200 randomly picked adult respondents, with a ± 3 margin of error at the 95-percent confidence level. […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte made the assurance on Thursday that Vice-President Leni Robredo would remain in her post “until the end of her term.” During an interview at the groundbreaking of the Bicol International airport on Thursday (December 8), Duterte dismissed Robredo’s fears that there was ever a plot to remove her as Vice-President. “I will assure Leni and the Bicol region that she will be there until the end of her […]
MANILA, Philippines (PIA) – Vice President Leni Robredo issued a statement re extrajudicial killings saying, “We support President Duterte’s declaration that the fight against drugs and crime must be done with an uncompromising exercise of the rule of law. In her statement, Vice President Robredo noted, however, that there have been over a hundred cases of drug-related reports of killings in less than a month. “While we are one with the fight against drugs, we […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte met Vice-President Leni Robredo on Friday, July 1 for the first time after their separate inauguration ceremonies on Thursday (June 30). The occasion was the turn-over ceremonies at the Armed Forces of the Philippines in Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City where the new AFP chief of Staff, Lieutenant. Gen. Ricardo Visaya took his oath of office. Visaya replaced AFP Lt. Gen. Glorioso Miranda. Duterte also referred to Robredo while […]
