{"id":245943,"date":"2020-02-23T09:36:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T14:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=245943"},"modified":"2020-02-23T09:36:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T14:36:54","slug":"palace-says-calls-to-oust-duterte-from-office-wont-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/02\/23\/palace-says-calls-to-oust-duterte-from-office-wont-thrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace says calls to oust Duterte from office won\u2019t thrive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an interview with dzIQ, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo reiterated that removing Duterte from office is a mere \u201cwishful thinking.\u201d (File Photo<\/a>: Office of the Presidential Spokesperson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang on Sunday said it already expects that the call for President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s ouster will not thrive.<\/p>\n

In an interview with dzIQ, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo reiterated that removing Duterte from office is a mere \u201cwishful thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also taunted the number of protesters who gathered at the People Power Monument in Quezon City on Saturday afternoon and demanded for Duterte\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWala pang<\/em>\u00a0100\u00a0yata ang dumating. \u2018Yun ang sinasabi ko. Pipe dream lang yun<\/em>\u00a0(Less than 100 protesters, perhaps, attended the rally. That\u2019s what I\u2019m saying. It\u2019s just a pipe dream). It\u2019s a wishful thinking.\u00a0Iyan ang<\/em>\u00a0statement we have to make.\u00a0Wala yun<\/em>\u00a0(That\u2019s the statement we have to make. It\u2019s nothing),\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

Members of Oust Duterte Movement, Kilusan Kontra China, Bunyog, and Confederation against Federalism reportedly flocked to the People Power Monument on Saturday to express their anger at Duterte.<\/p>\n

The Quezon City Police District estimated that the crowd at the monument was only around 100.<\/p>\n

The protesters flashed their placards with a call saying, \u201cDuterte, resign now!\u201d<\/p>\n

Panelo said Duterte\u2019s critics always wanted to unseat the President but never succeeded.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can always try.\u00a0Wala. Hanggang doon na lang sila<\/em>\u00a0(But it does not flourish. That\u2019s what they can only do),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Calls for Duterte\u2019s resignation came just three days before the anniversary of the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution on February 25 that ousted the late President Ferdinand Marcos.<\/p>\n

Last week, communist founder Jose Maria Sison claimed that there was also an attempt from some officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to stage a coup d\u2019etat against Duterte following the Philippines\u2019 termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement with the United States.<\/p>\n

Sison alleged that the coup plotters are AFP officials who served as \u201cassets\u201d of the US Defense Intelligence Agency and Central Intelligence Agency and are \u201cloyal to their pocketbooks rather than to the Filipino people.\u201d<\/p>\n

AFP chief-of-staff, Gen. Felimon Santos Jr. already dismissed rumors that some military officers have expressed opposition to the abrogation of VFA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang on Sunday said it already expects that the call for President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s ouster will not thrive. In …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":197910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ruth-abbey-gita-carlos","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245943","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=245943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245944,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245943\/revisions\/245944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}