It’s easy to believe that President Duterte is tired and weary.He is 73 years old and not the healthiest person on earth. The two years as chief executive of the country showed that he does not have what it takes to be a national leader.
But he will not resign. For the simple reason that he has to make sure that he doesn’t end up in jail for all the crimes that he would be charged with once he is out of power.
That’s why he wants to make sure that his successor is someone who will protect him. And that’s former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos or Sen. Francis Escudero for him.
It has nothing to do with competence. Duterte is the last person to talk about competence.
His spokesman Harry Roque put a stop to the talk about Duterte resigning in his briefing yesterday. Philstar’s Tina Mendez asked him:”Linawin lang natin: Sa ngayon, hindi talaga pa magre-resign ang Pangulo? (Let’s be clear about this. The President will not really resign?)”
Roque replied: “Iyon nga po, tama po. (That’s correct)Thank you very much, Tina. Sa ngayon (As of now), he remains.”
In the first place, what the President said Tuesday was what he has been saying many times in the past two years. He did not say he was resigning. What he said he told the soldiers and policemen was,”I am thinking of stepping down because I’m tired.”
Just thinking.
He said he doesn’t want Vice President Leni Robredo to succeed him.
He added: “So I said — I would suggest to the military, if you want a junta, look for the — or if you want yourselves to be the junta, I said line up here, I’ll put you in your proper place. ‘I General, do hereby solemnly swear that as a regular junta member of this republic.’”
From a president who swore to uphold the law, this statement does not speak well of his sanity.
Political analyst Segundo Romero Rodrigo Duterte in his piece, “The most dangerous president the Philippines has ever seen” said “The treacherous part is when he openly tempts the military to form a military junta to take over from him, instigating the military to violate the Constitutional provision that the Vice-President is the constitutional successor if the President resigns or is unable to perform the duties and functions of the office of President.
“This would be a cause of great alarm, were it not for the fact that Duterte has so grossly misread the Armed Forces of the Philippines. The Armed Forces of the Philippines as an institution has long realized that Rodrigo Duterte is the most dangerous President the Republic has seen, one that could and would destroy constitutional democracy in the Philippines for a narcissistic moment of glory.”
the most dangerous president the country has ever seen…very true indeed!
digong has so much protectors already, he’s never without them. they’re always round him, pampering him and overseeing all his needs at anytime of the day and night: the kapolisan, the military, his minions etc. they all owe their benign presence to digong and for them to enjoy more of what they have now, best interest nila to prop up digong, never letting him away from their sights, never giving others chance to whisper anything to him without 1st going through hoops and loops put in place by them.
bong marcos protecting digong? both digong and marcos got million trolls to protect their backs, lol! making and spreading fake news, also creating misinformation.
it’s taumbayan and our economy po that need protecting from the likes of digong and bong marcos, lol!
ako, I will not flatter myself into thinking that digong will be brought to account once he’s no longer in office, or that there will be major turn around and all the bad people will be routed. but if digong is indeed brought to account, it may well be not bong marcos or any of digong’s croonies that will be save him. it’s our law and the same rule of law that digong tries so hard to suppress that will be applied to him and maybe even save him too. the same human rights he denied to others will be accorded to him even if he does not deserve it. it’s not that we are forgiving, but because we adhere to the rule of law. plus we are compassionate people, as compassionate as we have been to enrile who was put under hospital arrest and not jailed, now out on bail. arroyo was shown the same compassion and was also on hospital arrest in veterans.
if it can be proven digong is too sick to be jailed, he too will be availed the hospital arrest, or the house arrest.
digong should keep his option open if he’s smart. he has no guarantee bong marcos will win office in 2022. bong was denied the vice presidency once, voters can again deny him the throne in 2022! be friend to all, enemy of one, that should be digong’s mantra, be friend to both leni and bong. digong should not let himself be fooled into believing that 2022 is year for bong marcos to shine. for 2022 might well be leni’s year to outshine marcos! lol!