{"id":178007,"date":"2018-08-22T04:13:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T08:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=178007"},"modified":"2018-08-22T04:13:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T08:13:06","slug":"prrd-hits-back-joma-youre-discredited-leader-freeloader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/22\/prrd-hits-back-joma-youre-discredited-leader-freeloader\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD hits back at Joma: \u2018You\u2019re a discredited leader, freeloader\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cYou know Mr. Sison you are a refugee in that country. You do not pay anything, you are staying for free and you are sick with cancer \u2014 in and out of the hospital,\u201d Duterte said. (RENE LUMAWAG\/PRESIDENTIAL FILE PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Tuesday described Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison as a \u201cdiscredited leader\u201d whom no one believes.<\/p>\n

Duterte made this remark after Sison said he has been in comatose since Sunday \u2014 a rumor dispelled by the President himself by going live on Facebook on Monday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are talking nonsense. \u2018Yung mga leaders dito, di naniniwala sayo<\/em>\u00a0(The leaders here don\u2019t believe you),\u201d Duterte said in his speech during the League of Municipalities of the Philippines Visayas Island Cluster Conference in Cebu City.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are a discredited leader\u2026Imagine not going home for 17 years,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Sison is currently in the Netherlands, where he has been in exile since 1987.<\/p>\n

Duterte also called Sison a \u201crebel that is a freeloader\u201d for benefiting from Netherlands\u2019 health care for free.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know Mr. Sison you are a refugee in that country. You do not pay anything, you are staying for free and you are sick with cancer \u2014 in and out of the hospital,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

He urged Sison to move to another country such as Belgium or Germany.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are footing the bill and you are a rebel that is a freeloader. Stop it, mahiya ka naman (you should be ashamed),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou will never win, I assure you.\u00a0\u2018Pag nakita kita sa impiyerno, p*******a sampalin kita<\/em>\u00a0(If we see each other in hell, I\u2019ll slap you). Don\u2019t expect to go to heaven,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He added that if he would have a chance, he would visit Sison in the Netherlands after his trip to Israel to see once and for all who is really in coma.<\/p>\n

\u201cComatose, comatose ka diyan.\u00a0O sige, tingnan natin. Magpunta ako diyan. Turista lang. Galing akong Israel tingnan natin kung sinong, comatose<\/em>\u00a0(Let\u2019s see. I\u2019ll go there as a tourist. I\u2019ll be coming from Israel. Let\u2019s see who\u2019s comatose),\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

According to Duterte, Sison\u2019s mind \u201cis really abused by himself, nobody else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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