#dutertes

[kamalkafir-blog]

What Sara Duterte’s comeback means for the Philippines

NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL A FEW months ago, things looked grim for Sara Duterte, the vice-president of the Philippines. The country’s House of Representatives had impeached her, accusing Ms Duterte of misusing public money and threatening to ******inate the president, Ferdinand “BongBong” Marcos. She faced a ban from politics if convicted of the charges in a trial in the…

[rhk111sblog]

I think it is Good that the Philippine Military is now, ah, "discussing", ahem, publicly among themselves the Geopolitical Problems that our Country is facing now, because I think this might be what our Country needs right now.

Majority of the Filipino People obviously are behind the Dutertes, but the incredibly evil betrayal of them by the Marcoses, and the consequent aligning of Forces by the Marcos-Araneta-Romualdez Group, the Oligarchs, the US and the CPP-NPA-NDF has left the Duterte's Political Fortunes hanging by a Thread despite that Support.

If this Country is indeed being torn apart, then don't blame the Dutertes. Blame the Forces that have aligned against them and the Filipino People …

[indizombie]

The Marcos family has benefitted greatly by aligning themselves with another powerful family, the Dutertes. Rodrigo Duterte is the current president of the Philippines. This brought together the Marcos' fiefdom in the provinces of Ilocos Norte and Leyte in the north and centre, together with the Dutertes' stronghold of Mindanao in the south. "If I'm going to put a number on it that's at least 50% of the reason he has come this far," says political strategist Alan German. "The Duterte machinery is strong, he is a well-loved president."

Jonathan Head, ‘What the Marcos' return to power means for the Philippines’, BBC