{"id":169342,"date":"2018-07-04T23:04:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T03:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=169342"},"modified":"2018-07-04T23:04:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T03:04:42","slug":"no-culture-of-impunity-in-ph-palace-maintains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/04\/no-culture-of-impunity-in-ph-palace-maintains\/","title":{"rendered":"No culture of impunity in PH, Palace maintains"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_152750\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152750\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harry-roque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152750\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harry-roque.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cThere is no culture of impunity in the Philippines as we do not condone any state-sponsored killing,\u201d Roque said in a press statement.(PNA PHOTO)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harry-roque.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harry-roque-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThere is no culture of impunity in the Philippines as we do not condone any state-sponsored killing,\u201d Roque said in a press statement.(PNA PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Contrary to claims by President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s critics, Malaca\u00f1ang on Wednesday maintained that there is no culture of impunity in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the clarification in response to Akbayan Party-list Rep. Tom Villarin\u2019s remarks that the Philippines has become \u201cdreadful and deadly\u201d under the Duterte administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no culture of impunity in the Philippines as we do not condone any state-sponsored killing,\u201d Roque said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said the Duterte administration continues to adhere to the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>He considered the recent killings of Mayors Antonio Halili of Tanauan City, Batangas and Ferdinand Bote of General Tinio, Nueva Ecija as \u201can attempt to erode confidence in the President&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said the main platform of the governance of Duterte, a former mayor for 23 years in Davao City, \u201crests on fighting crimes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, however, cannot be deterred in our focus in security and restoring order in the community,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur people have acknowledged the President as \u2018the protector of people,\u2019 as evidence by surveys giving him high satisfaction, approval, trust and performance ratings,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said the Philippine National Police (PNP) is sparing no effort to find and capture the killers of the two mayors.<\/p>\n<p>Halili was shot dead by a marksman while attending city hall\u2019s flag-raising ceremony on Monday in Tanauan City while Bote was killed in an ambush in Cabanatuan City the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Contrary to claims by President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s critics, Malaca\u00f1ang on Wednesday maintained that there is no culture of impunity &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":152750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[13135,31449],"class_list":["post-169342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","tag-presidential-spokesperson-harry-roque","mauthors-jelly-musico","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169342","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=169342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}