{"id":89696,"date":"2017-02-15T19:14:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T00:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=89696"},"modified":"2017-02-15T19:14:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T00:14:49","slug":"pres-duterte-displaying-strong-political-will-not-dictatorship-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/15\/pres-duterte-displaying-strong-political-will-not-dictatorship-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Duterte displaying strong political will, not dictatorship \u2013Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89697\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16508994_1621943074502014_8348421072208659698_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89697\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16508994_1621943074502014_8348421072208659698_n.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cThe President has displayed strong political will but this does not necessarily follow he would become a dictator,\u201d the Palace official said. (Photo: Presidential Communications (Government of the Philippines)\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16508994_1621943074502014_8348421072208659698_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16508994_1621943074502014_8348421072208659698_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16508994_1621943074502014_8348421072208659698_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe President has displayed strong political will but this does not necessarily follow he would become a dictator,\u201d the Palace official said. (Photo: Presidential Communications (Government of the Philippines)\/ Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013Malaca\u00f1ang on Wednesday stressed that President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s display of strong political will is just a firm response to the issues of the times and not a sign of a looming dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella issued the statement to debunk claims made by a group called February 25 Coalition alleging that there are indicators that the tools of dictatorship are being resurrected under the Duterte administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President has displayed strong political will but this does not necessarily follow he would become a dictator,\u201d the Palace official said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scenarios listed by the February 25 Coalition, such as the President&#8217;s references against some members of the clergy, the lowering of age of criminal liability, among others, are not signs of a looming dictatorship but firm responses to the prevailing issues of the day,\u201d Abella said.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his election, President Duterte has repeatedly vowed to be a hardliner against crime and corruption but said he would not be a dictator.<\/p>\n<p>Upon his assumption to the presidency, Duterte waged a no-nonsense war against illegal drugs and advocated for the re-imposition of the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>His actions were largely criticized by local and international human rights activists as well as the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>President Duterte shrugged off the criticisms saying he was just exercising political will that his predecessors were unable to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013Malaca\u00f1ang on Wednesday stressed that President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s display of strong political will is just a firm response to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":89697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95,483],"tags":[15284,13135,15283],"class_list":["post-89696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","category-politics","tag-not-dictatorship","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","tag-strong-political-will","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89696","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=89696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}