{"id":181085,"date":"2018-09-11T21:53:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T01:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=181085"},"modified":"2018-09-11T21:53:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T01:53:28","slug":"sison-magdalo-loose-conspiracy-oust-prrds-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/11\/sison-magdalo-loose-conspiracy-oust-prrds-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sison, Magdalo in \u2018loose conspiracy\u2019 to oust PRRD’s gov’t"},"content":{"rendered":"
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He said the connection \u201cwill be shown maybe any day now\u201d. (File Photo<\/a>: Jose Maria Sison\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said Communist Part of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV\u2019s Magdalo and other groups opposing his presidency are in “loose conspiracy” to overthrow his government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have combined and we have the evidence and we have the conversation provided by a foreign country sympathetic to us,\u201d Duterte said a televised t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate with Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo at the Malaca\u00f1ang Palace.<\/p>\n

Duterte said the foreign country, which he did not identify, has agreed to his request to declassify the conversation and \u201cshow it to everyone\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cNahihigop lahat eh. Alam nila \u2018yan<\/em>. (Everything can be monitored. They know it) So they were in constant communication. They are. It might be a loose conspiracy but they are into it,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

He said the connection \u201cwill be shown maybe any day now\u201d.<\/p>\n

The President, however, clarified that he will not stop the military and police if they believe he is no longer competent as president.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said my clear stand on the matter. If the armed forces think that I am not competent, that I am not qualified to be sitting here as President, I have discussed this matter with them in a command conference,\u00a0bahala kayo<\/em>\u00a0(it\u2019s up to you),\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want another President, fine. I will not allow you to fight your own soldiers. So I would not allow my soldiers to kill another soldier or a policeman shooting another soldier.\u00a0Eh kalokohan \u2018yan<\/em>\u00a0(That\u2019s ridiculous),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Duterte said he has fulfilled his promise to the military and police but if they think Trillanes can give them better. \u201cI urge you to go to Trillanes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He lambasted Trillanes for cursing all governments and committing ruckus when the latter spearheaded failed coup attempts against then president and now House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.<\/p>\n

Duterte said Trillanes did even dare to visit the poor soldiers who fought against terrorists during the five-month Marawi City siege last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m giving you (soldiers) a fighting chance. And when they said I doubled the salary, I doubled it long before Marawi. It was a campaign promise and I complied.\u00a0Pero kung tingin ninyo mga sundalo na mas mabuti si<\/em>Trillanes\u00a0pati si<\/em>\u00a0Aquino (But if you think Trillanes and also Aquino is better), please kindly go to them and stage whatever you want.\u00a0Pakita sa buong Pilipinas na kaya ninyo<\/em>\u00a0(Show to the whole Philippines that you can),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am challenging the Magdalo to start now. Kung sigurado ninyo na sa inyo ang sundalo, fine (If you\u2019re sure that the soldiers are with you, it\u2019s fine),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Duterte also denied Trillanes\u2019 accusation that he is a dictator and that he is out to silence the senator and other opposition members.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have yet to sign anything, ordering the arrest and silencing of anybody in the government, especially the critics. The fact that they are doing it every day, it goes to show that I\u2019m giving them the time of their lives to just talk and talk.\u00a0Wala naman<\/em>\u00a0(nothing). It\u2019s an invented phrase, that silencing,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

The President said Senator Leila de Lima, an opposition lawmaker, is jailed because she has pending case, referring to her illegal drug case.<\/p>\n

Duterte maintained that the New People\u2019s Army is a terrorist group.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut everyday throughout the country, they are killing barangay (village) captains, those sympathetic with government, even soldiers. Those are violations of\u2026 they are terrorists,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

Sison, as a terrorist, should face trial, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a terrorist,I do not see any leeway or enough elbow room for him to move around,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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