{"id":275744,"date":"2020-11-17T20:57:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=275744"},"modified":"2020-11-17T20:57:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:57:09","slug":"prrd-hits-leni-for-grandstanding-during-typhoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/11\/17\/prrd-hits-leni-for-grandstanding-during-typhoons\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD hits Leni for \u2018grandstanding\u2019 during typhoons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Rodrigo Duterte and Vice President Leni Robredo. (Photo<\/a>: Leni Robredo\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Tuesday night lashed out at Vice President Leni Robredo for alleged \u201cgrandstanding\u201d and questioning his absence during the onslaught of Typhoon Ulysses last week.<\/p>\n

Duterte labeled Robredo as \u201cdishonest\u201d for pretending not to know that he was attending the 37th virtual ASEAN Summit and Related Summits from November 12 to 15.<\/p>\n

\u201cHuwag ka masyadong porma-porma, hindi mo talaga panahon. Hindi mo pa panahon<\/em>\u00a0(Don\u2019t act like that. It\u2019s not your time yet). Not time to be making a grandstanding.\u00a0Hindi ninyo alam na nagtatrabaho ako. Na-timingan lang<\/em>\u00a0it was a summit (You didn\u2019t know I was working. It just so happened there was a summit) and I cannot excuse you for not knowing it. You knew that there was a summit going on and you had the gall to say,\u00a0\u2018Nasaan ang Presidente<\/em>\u00a0(Where is the President)?\u201d he said in a taped speech.<\/p>\n

Duterte accused the Vice President of being showy during the typhoon response since she knew that he was busy attending the summit and \u201ccould not make myself available.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAlam mo may<\/em>\u00a0summit going on (You knew there was a summit going on), ASEAN Summit. And I was giving the longest speech there, intervention, in the Plenary.\u00a0Iyon ang totoo diyan. Kaya ako lumipad doon sa Bicol. Inunahan mo ako pakunwari<\/em>\u00a0(That\u2019s the truth. That\u2019s why I flew to Bicol. You wanted to be there ahead of me),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Robredo, the President said, merely made phone calls and acted as if the Armed Forces of the Philippines took action after her call.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen you make it appear\u00a0na gumalaw ang<\/em>\u00a0Armed Forces (that the Armed Forces acted). You are not part of the command,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Duterte also warned Robredo against trying to \u201ccompete\u201d with him, adding that she \u201ccannot become president.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not compete with me and do not start a quarrel with me\u00a0kasi ikaw wala ka talagang nagawa<\/em>\u00a0except\u00a0\u2018yang mga tawag-tawag. Tatawag ka kunwari o nasaan na \u2018yung mga<\/em>\u00a0helicopter,\u00a0nalipad na ba<\/em>? (because you didn\u2019t do anything except make calls. You would call and ask, \u2018Did the helicopters take off yet?\u2019) Of course, they would say yes. Your question would suggest the answer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Duterte said government personnel and resources were prepositioned two to three days before the typhoon made landfall.<\/p>\n

\u201cHindi na kailangan akong mag-order at mag-order ka pa<\/em>\u00a0on the day (There was no need for me to make orders or for you to make an order on the day), God\u2026 You were presuming that I should be giving orders on the day of the storm. That is stupid. That is why you cannot become a president really.\u00a0Mahina ka eh. Wala ka nang ibigay<\/em>\u00a0order\u00a0kasi ang order naibigay na<\/em>\u00a0two or three days (You\u2019re weak. You didn\u2019t have to give any order because I gave it two or three days before). You do not give orders on the day of the war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The President also denied that he was sleeping on the job, saying he was monitoring the typhoon situation while attending the summit.<\/p>\n

\u201cGusto ninyong ipalabas natutulog. Kung<\/em>\u00a0ordinary times,\u00a0walang<\/em>\u00a0emergency,\u00a0walang<\/em>\u00a0typhoon (You want to make it appear like I was asleep. In ordinary times, when there\u2019s no emergency, no typhoon), I told you right at the beginning of my term, I am a night person. My day starts at 2 o\u2019clock in Malaca\u00f1an,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Insisting that it was a \u201csin\u201d for Robredo to not know what was happening in government, Duterte explained that he delivered about two speeches during the summit and later made an aerial inspection of the typhoon-hit areas.<\/p>\n

In a tweet, Robredo debunked Duterte’s allegations, denying that her office did nothing during the height of the typhoon.<\/p>\n

She said her office was busy repacking relief goods in their headquarters in Quezon City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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