{"id":177303,"date":"2018-08-17T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=177303"},"modified":"2018-08-17T06:28:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T10:28:00","slug":"panelo-duterte-will-not-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/17\/panelo-duterte-will-not-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Panelo: Duterte will not resign"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo and President Rodrigo Duterte (Photo: RODRIGUEZ\/PPD)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When President Rodrigo Duterte announced that he will consider stepping down, Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo\u00a0said the Chief Executive will not actually do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis statement was more of an expression of exasperation, a cry of sheer disgust on what is happening vis-a-vis the drive against corruption. He’s so pissed off,\u201d Panelo told ANC on Friday, August 17.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut knowing him, he’s not a quitter,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Panelo stressed that Duterte\u2019s only intention of making such pronouncement was \u201cto tell people that \u2018I\u2019m disgusted, I\u2019m exasperated, I want to resign\u2019\u201d but the Palace official believes that the President will not do so.<\/p>\n

In a speech on Tuesday, August 14, Duterte said he will only resign from his post if someone like Senator Francis \u201cChiz\u201d Escudero or former Senator Ferdinand \u201cBongbong Marcos\u201d Jr. will be the next president.<\/p>\n

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. on Thursday said the Chief Executive may keep true to his word of resigning if Marcos will win his electoral protest against Vice President (VP) Maria Leonor \u201cLeni\u201d Robredo.<\/p>\n

Asked why the President floated the name of Marcos when he is not even Duterte\u2019s Constitutional successor, the Chief Legal Counsel said it was just a \u2018comparison\u2019 between the sitting Vice President and the losing vice presidential bet.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as the President is concerned, the way the VP responds to particular question, the way she discusses issues, he feels that this person is not capable of running this country,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

Back in July, Duterte has been saying that Robredo cannot govern a country like the Philippines because she is \u2018incompetent.\u2019<\/p>\n

But Romulo Macalintal, Robredo\u2019s lead counsel, asserted that the Vice President is ‘qualified’ to be the Philippine leader as she met the same qualifications Duterte has as required by the Constitution.<\/p>\n

Robredo, he said, deserves to prove to everyone that she is capable to lead “in her own style and approach on current problems of the country.”<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a lawyer, you know she is entitled to due process or right to be heard before she could be accused of not being qualified to perform the functions of the presidency [to] which under the Constitution she is the rightful successor,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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