Duterte admission of killings only weakens daughter Sara’s stance

The father’s televised self-incrimination not only reassociated Sara with the Davao Death Squad. It also weakened her justifications for P650-million confidential funds as VP and Education Secretary.Dispute over confidential-intelligence funds recently pulled down Sara’s ratings. Congress scrapped for 2024 the no-audit P500-million CIF as VP and P150 million as education chief that she got for 2023.

Duterte faces charges before the ICC for extrajudicial killings during part of his term, November 2011-June 2016. A bloody drug war marked his presidency, July 2016-June 2022. City hall paid them huge amounts even when Sara was mayor, 2010-2013, Lascañas alleged. He received at least P68,000 a month by collecting in behalf of ten to 12 ghost employees.

Rody Duterte blamed attacks on his daughter on Speaker Martin Romualdez, with whom she supposedly will compete for the presidency in 2028. In a subsequent SMNI telecast he called Congress, where he sat in 1998-2001, as the dirtiest branch of government. It’s a seemingly never ending, nerve wracking game of sharks and minnows; every Filipino fisherman or every man guarding our seas may feel extra jittery nowadays whenever the job takes them to the disputed...

Today I am writing to you from the beautiful province of Leyte, where I am attending the 79th Anniversary of the landings to liberate the Philippines in the Second World War.As mankind winds down the first quarter of the 21st century, the world is suddenly in the grip of two large regional wars –Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Hamas.

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