{"id":245732,"date":"2020-02-21T20:44:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T01:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=245732"},"modified":"2020-02-21T20:44:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T01:44:12","slug":"palace-gives-robredo-benefit-of-the-doubt-over-oust-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/02\/21\/palace-gives-robredo-benefit-of-the-doubt-over-oust-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace gives Robredo ‘benefit of the doubt’ over oust calls"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robredo, who has been a staunch critic of some of the current administration\u2019s policies, clarified on Thursday that she is not part of the groups that would stage mass protests against Duterte. (File photo<\/a>: VP Leni Robredo\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2014 Malaca\u00f1ang said Friday it is giving Vice President Leni Robredo the benefit of the doubt as she denied supporting any call for President Rodrigo Duterte to step down.<\/p>\n

Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made the statement, a day after Robredo distanced herself from the mass action set on Saturday, three days ahead of the 34th anniversary of the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution on February 25.<\/p>\n

\u201cBaka naman nagsasabi siya ng totoo<\/em>\u00a0(Perhaps, she\u2019s telling the truth). Let\u2019s give her the benefit of the doubt,\u201d Panelo said in an interview with Palace reporters.<\/p>\n

Robredo, who has been a staunch critic of some of the current administration\u2019s policies, clarified on Thursday that she is not part of the groups that would stage mass protests against Duterte.<\/p>\n

Her clarification came after she received reports about people hatching a plan to oust Duterte.<\/p>\n

Robredo said she does not seek Duterte’s removal from office, as she wants him to do his job as the country’s highest elected official.<\/p>\n

\u2018Good luck\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Calls for Duterte\u2019s ouster came days before the anniversary of the 1986 bloodless revolution that ousted the late president Ferdinand Marcos.<\/p>\n

Unfazed by the supposed plot to unseat Duterte, Panelo merely wished coup plotters good luck.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt alam mo ‘yung mga panawagan na iyan, wala \u2018yun<\/em>\u00a0(You know, such calls are nothing). It will never see the light of day. Good luck to them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Last week, communist movement founder Jose Maria Sison claimed that those who are staging a coup d\u2019etat against Duterte are \u201cquite a number\u201d of Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) officials who were \u201cassets\u201d of the United States (US) Defense Intelligence Agency and Central Intelligence Agency and are \u201cloyal to their pocketbooks rather than to the Filipino people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sison alleged that Duterte has \u201caroused\u201d pro-US AFP officials to remove him from office due to his termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between Manila and Washington DC.<\/p>\n

However, AFP Chief-of-Staff, Gen. Felimon Santos Jr., denied speculations that some military officers have opposed Duterte\u2019s abrogation of the VFA.<\/p>\n

Reports also noted that a certain \u201cBunyog\u201d is calling for the ouster of Duterte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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