{"id":176881,"date":"2018-08-15T03:57:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T07:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=176881"},"modified":"2018-08-15T03:57:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T07:57:37","slug":"duterte-ready-resign-escudero-marcos-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/15\/duterte-ready-resign-escudero-marcos-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte ready to resign if Escudero, Marcos to lead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte shares a light moment with the guests during the Joint 68th National Security Council and 69th National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) Founding Anniversary Celebration at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City on July 31, 2018. KARL NORMAN ALONZO\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The President will only step down from his Chief Executive post if someone \u201clike\u201d Senator Francis \u201cChiz\u201d Escudero or former Senator Ferdinand \u201cBongbong\u201d Marcos Jr. will be his successor.<\/p>\n

This was according to President Rodrigo Roa Duterte during the dinner with the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) on Tuesday, August 14. This followed after his speech prior to the dinner in which he said he has \u201chad enough\u201d and was ready to resign from his Presidency.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is inside me is not really anger kasi wala ka talagang magawa<\/em> eh (because I really cannot do anything anymore). It\u2019s the frustration that I cannot comply with my promise number one\u2013 corruption,\u201d he said in the speech.<\/p>\n

While this was the case, Duterte said in his honest opinion, Vice President Maria Leonor \u201cLeni\u201d Robredo is not good for succession.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think deep in my heart\u2026 if you follow the succession and Robredo takes over, hindi niya kaya<\/em> (she cannot handle it)\u2026 that\u2019s my honest opinion ko lang<\/em>. Kung sino lang sana d\u2019yan<\/em> (Hopefully it is someone) in the likes of Escudero or Bongbong Marcos,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

He, however, clarified that he has nothing against the Vice President.<\/p>\n

\u201cPanalo na ako. Hindi ako nakikipag-away ng babae. Hindi nga ako sumasagot kung ano ang sinasabi nila<\/em> (I already won. I do not fight with women. I am not even answering whatever they are saying),\u201d the President added.<\/p>\n

This was not the first time for Duterte criticize Robredo\u2019s capabilities with respect to the possibility of her being the president of the country.<\/p>\n

Earlier in July, the President fired at Robredo for being \u2018incompetent\u2019 to lead the Philippines.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think she will be ready to govern a country. Reason? Incompetence. She is not capable of running a country like the Philippines,\u201d the President told reporters in Clark, Pampanga then.<\/p>\n

Robredo\u2019s response to the President\u2019s criticism came as, \u201cAyoko na sana i<\/em>-dignify pero siguro sabihin ko na lang na imbes na insultuhin ako o ang Diyos, asikasuhin na lang muna ang mga problema ng ating ekonomiya<\/em> (I did not really want to dignify him but let us just say that instead of insulting me or God, he should fix the problem in our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The President will only step down from his Chief Executive post if someone \u201clike\u201d Senator Francis \u201cChiz\u201d Escudero or former …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":174352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176881","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=176881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}