The President seemed to be not affected to the protesters on September 21 and even challenged them to stay as long as a month but reminded them to "protest in peace".
He stated: “I challenge you, if you think three days, one month will do, go ahead, be my guest,” Duterte said in an interview aired over PTV-4. “I will just reroute traffic and ask the people: ‘I’m sorry, but there are guys there that want to occupy [Edsa]".
He would even let them use government vehicles and reroute traffic and hoped they could produce more than the crown that had shown up during the previous Edsa Revolt.
Our President won't cling to his post if the Filipino people really want him gone, he said.
“I can live with it for about one year,” he said. “And then let us see if the Filipinos want… I will see. But you know, I was elected constitutionally, I did not cheat.”
“There’s no problem with that,” he said. “I have no illusion about the presidency. I can always resign anytime I want.”
If ever he would submit his resignation to Congress, he stated , it would have to be subjected to the concurrence of the military, who would see to it that the rules of the succession would be followed.
On the other hand, Duterte said he would want to stage his own protest on Thursday against against the “corrupt yellows” in government who he could not remove because of their fixed terms of office.
When he was asked if he had not requested Commission on Human Rights Chairman Jose Luis Martin Gascon to resign, he said he had not.
“Matter of delicadeza,” he added, once more describing Gascon as “spokesman of the Liberal [Party].”
He claimed Gascon had been fixated on a few deaths and had not paid attention to the victims in Marawi, which had been under siege by Islamic State-inspired terrorists since May 23.
The CHR, though, had condemned the violence of the Maute terror group in the past months and had sent a team to investigate claims of offenses against women from Marawi.
If ever he would submit his resignation to Congress, he stated , it would have to be subjected to the concurrence of the military, who would see to it that the rules of the succession would be followed.
On the other hand, Duterte said he would want to stage his own protest on Thursday against against the “corrupt yellows” in government who he could not remove because of their fixed terms of office.
When he was asked if he had not requested Commission on Human Rights Chairman Jose Luis Martin Gascon to resign, he said he had not.
“Matter of delicadeza,” he added, once more describing Gascon as “spokesman of the Liberal [Party].”
He claimed Gascon had been fixated on a few deaths and had not paid attention to the victims in Marawi, which had been under siege by Islamic State-inspired terrorists since May 23.
The CHR, though, had condemned the violence of the Maute terror group in the past months and had sent a team to investigate claims of offenses against women from Marawi.
source: inquirer
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