{"id":159612,"date":"2018-04-11T06:49:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T10:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=159612"},"modified":"2018-04-11T06:49:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T10:49:56","slug":"palace-we-should-respect-the-presidents-landslide-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/11\/palace-we-should-respect-the-presidents-landslide-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace: We should respect the President\u2019s landslide victory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. ( YANCY LIM\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Malaca\u00f1ang defended the President from the allegations associating his electoral victory in 2016 with controversial Cambridge Analytica\u2019s parent company.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should respect the President\u2019s landslide victory, which was a result of the trust and confidence of the Filipino people, and not undermine it with unsubstantiated allegations,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, Jr. said in a statement on Tuesday, April 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President won the election fair and square with an overwhelming mandate of over 16 million votes and a margin of over six million,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte\u2019s childhood friend, highschool classmate, and Department of Finance (DOF) Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, who served as the President\u2019s fundraising and campaign finance manager, denied the connection.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Secretary of Finance, in his capacity as treasurer of the campaign, assures us that he did not pay Cambridge Analytica or transacted with them,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n

The spokesman also maintained that Facebook is not the only factor that made Duterte win.<\/p>\n

\u201cSupport for the former Davao city mayor was from all sectors and not just from Facebook or online; thus the Duterte campaign did not have to purchase information,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Roque was commenting on the report published by South China Morning Post (SCMP) revealed that Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL), the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, cited the Philippines as one of its clients. The website content and section are already deleted from the website, but archived versions are still available online.<\/p>\n

(Read: Report says Cambridge Analytical parent co may have helped Duterte win election<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Duterte was not mentioned but SCMP pointed out that the description pertained to the Philippine President.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the run-up to national elections, the incumbent client was widely perceived as both kind and honourable, qualities his campaign team thought were potentially election-winning. But SCL\u2019s research showed that many groups within the electorate were more likely to be swayed by qualities such as toughness and decisiveness,\u201d the website content read.<\/p>\n

\u201cSCL used the crosscutting issue of crime to rebrand the client as a strong no-nonsense man of action, who would appeal to the true values of the voters,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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