{"id":184830,"date":"2018-10-09T23:02:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T03:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=184830"},"modified":"2018-10-09T23:02:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T03:02:35","slug":"duterte-never-fired-mocha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/09\/duterte-never-fired-mocha\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte: I never fired Mocha"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_184870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184870\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/43565424_10156939786086522_7725289561428852736_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-184870\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/43565424_10156939786086522_7725289561428852736_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/43565424_10156939786086522_7725289561428852736_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/43565424_10156939786086522_7725289561428852736_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/43565424_10156939786086522_7725289561428852736_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-184870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President\u00a0Rodrigo Duterte and former Communications Secretary Mocha Uson. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Mochablogger\/photos\/a.10150517244941522\/10156939786081522\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Mochablogger\/?tn-str=k*F\">MOCHA USON BLOG\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte confirmed that former Communications Assistant Secretary Esther Margaux &#8220;Mocha&#8221; Uson resigned from her post, dismissing a news report that he fired her from the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO).<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, October 9, Uson uploaded on her Facebook page a video of her conversation with Duterte in Malaca\u00f1ang.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Uson was telling the President the report that she was sacked from her post, to which Duterte replied, &#8220;No, you resigned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never fired Mocha, <em>siya &#8216;yung<\/em> nag-resign(she was the one who resigned),&#8221; he reiterated.<\/p>\n<p>Uson said she did not want to &#8220;disturb&#8221; the President, who has a jam-packed schedule, but the former assistant secretary just wanted to clarify the issue about her resignation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The supporters would just like to know the truth,&#8221; Uson said.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte then replied, &#8220;I will be angry if you will not disturb me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea and Special Assistant to the President (SAP) Christopher &#8220;Bong&#8221; Go earlier said it was not true that Uson was fired by Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>Uson announced last week her resignation, saying that she gave up her position to ease the way for the Communications agency&#8217;s budget for next year.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Uson warned her critics that her fight is not yet over.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Wag kayong magkakamaling isipin na nagtagumpay kayo. Hindi ako nagbitiw sa posisyon dahil takot ako sa inyo. Gusto ko lang na kapag magkaharap tayo, patas ang laban\u00a0<\/em>(Do not even think that you won. I did not resign from my position because I\u2019m afraid of you. I just want that when we confront each other, our fight will be fair),&#8221; she previously said.<\/p>\n<p>The former Palace official,\u00a0then, on Monday, confirmed that she will run for public office in the upcoming midterm elections to &#8220;give voice to ordinary Filipinos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, she refused to disclose what position she is eyeing for.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/09\/mocha-usons-candidacy-2019-polls-draws-mixed-reactions\/\">READ: Mocha Uson\u2019s candidacy in 2019 polls draws mixed reactions<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Duterte confirmed that former Communications Assistant Secretary Esther Margaux &#8220;Mocha&#8221; Uson resigned from her post, dismissing a news &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":184870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184830","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=184830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}