{"id":134529,"date":"2017-11-27T22:42:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T03:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=134529"},"modified":"2025-01-19T13:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T18:43:01","slug":"roque-hints-at-political-betrayal-why-duterte-canceled-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/27\/roque-hints-at-political-betrayal-why-duterte-canceled-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Roque hints at political betrayal why Duterte canceled talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_131481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131481\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-131481\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Harry Roque (PCOO PHOTO)\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-131481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Harry Roque (PCOO PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>DAVAO CITY<\/strong> \u2014 Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. hinted at political betrayal that prompted President Rodrigo Duterte to cancel talks with the communist movement last week.<\/p>\n<p>The President feels betrayed thinking the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People&#8217;s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) were sincere in talking peace with the government, Roque told Davao reporters during a press briefing at the Presidential Guesthouse in Panacan, Davao City Monday when asked on the cancellation of the talks between the government and CPP-NPA-NDF.<\/p>\n<p>Roque recalled Duterte\u2019s close relations with members of the communist movement and the legal fronts back when he was mayor of the city.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Akala niya dahil malapit na malapit ang relasyon niya sa kaliwa at talagang makikipagusap ng tapat<\/em>\u00a0(He thought that he has close relations with the left and would really be sincere in the talks),\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>From the start of Duterte\u2019s presidency, Roque said the President did not consider the CPP-NPA-NDF and leftist as enemies.<\/p>\n<p>Roque stressed that the President even tried to address pro-poor issues like the universal healthcare, free tuition, and making oligarchs pay taxes such as the cases of Philippine Airlines and Mighty Corporation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy priligy online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesupplementreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/priligy.html\">https:\/\/www.thesupplementreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/priligy.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Ano pa gusto nila kay Presidente<\/em>\u00a0(What more do they want)?\u201d Roque quipped, emphasizing the President&#8217;s aim to end the decades-old rebellion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Napakatagal na nitong labanan, nasa<\/em>\u00a0Guinness Book of World Records\u00a0<em>na ito. Ano pa gusto nila? Kailangan umusad na.<\/em>\u00a0Move on (This has been a long battle, it is already in the Guinness Book of World Records. What more do they want? They should move on),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the formal cancellation of the talks with the issuance of Proclamation No. 360 last week, Roque clarified that there was official proclamation declaring the CPP-NPA-NDF as terrorists.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy estradiol online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesupplementreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/estradiol.html\">https:\/\/www.thesupplementreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/estradiol.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Roque, however, said the declaration may come soon.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy kamagra gold online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesupplementreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/kamagra-gold.html\">https:\/\/www.thesupplementreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/kamagra-gold.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<em><strong>(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVAO CITY \u2014 Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. hinted at political betrayal that prompted President Rodrigo Duterte to cancel talks &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":131481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[33970,35764,13135,34456],"class_list":["post-134529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-communist-party-of-the-philippines-new-peoples-army-national-democratic-front-cpp-npa-ndf","tag-political-betrayal","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","tag-presidential-spokesperson-harry-roque-jr","mauthors-lilian-mellejor","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285846,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134529\/revisions\/285846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}