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Plans by the Philippines’ controversial incoming president to give late dictator Ferdinand Marcos a hero’s burial triggered outrage on Tuesday, May 24, with martial law victims warning it would whitewash the strongman’s crimes.
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DAVAO CITY -- Presumptive president-elect Rodrigo Duterte stressed on Monday, May 16, that the death penalty must be re-imposed during his administration if he was to deliver the promised crackdown on criminality plaguing the country.
Read more: Duterte to use death penalty, militias in war vs drugs, major crimes
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DAVAO CITY - He has stage 4 cancer and is dying. (Joke!) He will deliver a five-minute inaugural speech. (Joke!) He will solve the country’s crime problem in three to six months (may be a joke).
Read more: Duterte: If it’s preposterous, then don’t believe it!
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Presumptive president-elect Rodrigo Duterte would be a “hands-on” president once he assumes his office this June, his spokesman said on Monday, May 16.
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DAVAO CITY - Presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte warned at least four major law enforcement agencies that they face a “massive revamp” once he’s in power, as he expressed anger over the deaths of five concertgoers in Pasay City last week and called the tragedy a “failure of intelligence” in the war on illegal drugs.
Read more: Duterte to PNP, NBI, PDEA, BuCor: Big revamp is coming
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DAVAO CITY -- Presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday, May 15, said he wanted to cultivate friendly relations with China even as he confirmed he was open to direct talks over a territorial row that had badly damaged bilateral ties.
Read more: Duterte favors friendlier ties, 2-way talks with China
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The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on Thursday, May 19, said the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) cannot be unilaterally set aside by the government as the incoming Duterte administration pushes for a federal system of government.
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DAVAO CITY -- At first blush, Rodrigo Duterte’s choices for prime positions in his First Family aren’t any different from the mold of that of his predecessor.
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The Cabinet members of presumptive President Rodrigo Duterte would be similar to the Cabinet of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his transition team said.
Read more: Duterte Cabinet to follow Trudeau’s - well represented, gender-sensitive Cabinet
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama offered his congratulations Tuesday, May 17, to the new presumptive president of the Philippines who has attracted controversy over his iron-fisted approach to law and order.
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