{"id":166601,"date":"2018-06-08T06:48:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T10:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=166601"},"modified":"2018-06-08T06:48:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T10:48:46","slug":"nationwide-martial-law-divides-the-nation-says-duterte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/08\/nationwide-martial-law-divides-the-nation-says-duterte\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide martial law divides the nation, says Duterte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When he warned for \u201cradical changes\u201d to come in the country, President Rodrigo Duterte was not thinking of declaring martial law to achieve this.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the widespread criminality in the Philippines, the president had said that he will end such by using his emergency powers \u201cto the hilt\u201d to put things in order, but imposing martial law nationwide is not one of his options.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNo, martial law is not feasible. It won\u2019t work. First of all, it\u2019s going to be a divided nation. So, I don\u2019t know if everybody will agree. It\u2019s going to divide the nation,\u201d Duterte said\u00a0<span>Thursday<\/span>\u00a0night during a press briefing at the inauguration of the Mactan Cebu International Airport Terminal 2 in Lapu-Lapu City.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Duterte, when asked if he is inclined to declare a state of national emergency, responded: \u201cNo. I have declared national emergency already, it\u2019s existing. In other countries, [a] national emergency is equated with martial law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He,\u00a0however, explained that his style of handling a national emergency is unique, citing the way he handled the Filipino workers in Kuwait as an example.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Duterte also said that he is going to weed out corruption from the government, starting off with the Philippine National Police (PNP) and proceed to the local government officials who are manifesting \u201ccomplacency and nonchalant attitudes towards the problem of criminality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 06\/ 08 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he warned for \u201cradical changes\u201d to come in the country, President Rodrigo Duterte was not thinking of declaring martial &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166601","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=166601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}