{"id":183424,"date":"2018-09-28T05:28:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T09:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=183424"},"modified":"2018-09-28T05:31:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T09:31:36","slug":"duterte-knows-hes-arroyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/28\/duterte-knows-hes-arroyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte knows what he&#8217;s doing: Arroyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_182996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182996\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/arroyo-ambush-sept.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-182996\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/arroyo-ambush-sept.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/arroyo-ambush-sept.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/arroyo-ambush-sept-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo answers questions from the media about the marathon budget deliberations of the House of Representatives. (Photo by Filane Mikee Cervantes\/PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 House of Representatives Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Friday balked at giving any recommendation to President Rodrigo Duterte in handling the possible destabilization plot against the government, noting that the Chief Executive \u201cknows what he\u2019s doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last thing he needs is a comment from the peanut gallery,\u201d she said in an ambush interview during the distribution of assistance to farmers in Nueva Ecija who were affected by the recent typhoon.<\/p>\n<p>Arroyo, who also faced several ouster threats during her nine-year presidency, recalled that Duterte helped her deal with these destabilization attempts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Noon ako nga may<\/em>\u00a0destabilization,\u00a0<em>si<\/em>\u00a0President Duterte<em>\u00a0nga ang tumutulong sa akin e<\/em>\u00a0(When I also faced destabilization threats back then, President Duterte was the one helping me). Alam niya kung ano ang gagawin niya (He knows what he\u2019s doing), so I wouldn\u2019t want to add to the unsolicited advice to him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier televised t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate with Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo, Duterte said Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV\u2019s Magdalo and other groups opposing his presidency are in a &#8220;loose conspiracy&#8221; to overthrow his government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have combined and we have the evidence and we have the conversation provided by a foreign country sympathetic to us,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p>The Armed Forces of the Philippines also recently confirmed a conspiracy by the CPP-New People\u2019s Army (NPA) and other opposition groups to oust Duterte through the so-called \u201cRed October\u201d plot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 House of Representatives Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Friday balked at giving any recommendation to President Rodrigo Duterte in handling &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":182996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183424","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}